China's efforts towards carbon neutrality: does energy-saving and emission-reduction policy mitigate carbon emissions?

T Xu, C Kang, H Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
To achieve green and low-carbon development, the Chinese government has selected pilot
cities to implement the energy-saving and emission-reduction (ESER) policy in three …

Going carbon-neutral in China: Does the low-carbon city pilot policy improve carbon emission efficiency?

H Zhang, C Feng, X Zhou - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2022 - Elsevier
To combat climate change and move towards carbon neutrality, China has implemented the
low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy since 2010, with carrying out three batches of pilot cities …

Accelerating carbon neutrality could help China's energy system align with below 1.5° C

X Ma, T Peng, Y Zhang, L Wang, X Pan - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
To support the achievement of the Paris Agreement's 1.5° C global warming threshold,
China aims to peak CO 2 emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 …

Comparing climate policies to reduce carbon emissions in China

A Li, B Lin - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Currently, China is the largest carbon emitter mainly due to growing consumption of fossil
fuels. In 2009, the Chinese government committed itself to reducing domestic carbon …

Does energy productivity and public-private investment in energy achieve carbon neutrality target of China?

G Cheng, C Zhao, N Iqbal, Ö Gülmez, H Işik… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon neutrality target is of great importance to all countries around the globe recently.
Innovative methods are being evaluated to achieve the environmental sustainability. In this …

The United States and China on the paths and policies to carbon neutrality

Z Wu, X Huang, R Chen, X Mao, X Qi - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid economic development has highlighted the global climate change problem and
carbon dioxide emissions have brought challenges to global climate change. The combined …

Does energy-saving and emission reduction policy affects carbon reduction performance? A quasi-experimental evidence in China

Z Du, Y Wang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Energy-saving and Emission Reduction Demonstration City (ESERD) Policy
brings more favorable development conditions and opportunities for the cities selected, but …

Towards carbon neutrality: the impact of renewable energy development on carbon emission efficiency

F Dong, C Qin, X Zhang, X Zhao, Y Pan, Y Gao… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The energy transition and carbon emission efficiency are important thrust and target
functions, respectively, for achieving carbon neutrality in the future. Using a sample of 30 …

Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action

H Dong, Y Liu, Z Zhao, X Tan, S Managi - Sustainability Science, 2022 - Springer
China's newly announced carbon neutrality goal manifests its determination to advance
green and low-carbon development. The country aims to peak carbon dioxide emissions by …

Research on energy conservation and carbon emission reduction effects and mechanism: Quasi-experimental evidence from China

S Wen, H Liu - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to identify three batches of low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy on energy
conservation and carbon emission reduction. Specifically, we first innovatively develop a …