Role of renewable energy in China's energy security and climate change mitigation: An index decomposition analysis

B Wang, Q Wang, YM Wei, ZP Li - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Renewable energy is an efficient tool to support China's endeavors to keep energy
independence and mitigate climate change. This paper applies a Divisia index approach to …

Indoor thermal environments in Chinese residential buildings responding to the diversity of climates

B Li, C Du, R Yao, W Yu, V Costanzo - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
China has a diversity of climates and a unique historic national heating policy which greatly
affects indoor thermal environment and the occupants' thermal response. This paper …

Review of heating methods for rural houses in China

G Zheng, W Bu - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
With the continuous development of the social economy, residents living in rural China pay
more attention to the heating quality and require a comfortable and healthy indoor thermal …

Residential carbon dioxide emissions at the urban scale for county-level cities in China: A comparative study of nighttime light data

J Zhao, Y Chen, G Ji, Z Wang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbon emissions from residential energy consumption in urban areas play a pivotal role in
meeting emission targets. It is more beneficial to decomposing the emission reduction target …

Heterogeneous impacts of households on carbon dioxide emissions in Chinese provinces

J Zhang, B Yu, YM Wei - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
As unequal carbon dioxide emissions exist among households with diverse consumption
patterns resulting from different income and spatial contexts, the same carbon emission …

The residential coal consumption: Disparity in urban–rural China

J Chen, Y Wu, M Song, Y Dong - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2018 - Elsevier
Research on China's coal consumption addresses global concerns related to clean energy,
sustainable communities, and climate action, among others (ie, Targets 7, 11, and 13 in the …

Households' energy consumption change in China: A multi-regional perspective

H Zhang, ML Lahr - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
As China's economy enters the “new normal” phase, its growth model has gradually
changed to focus more on domestic consumption. In this paper, we examine regional …

Assessment and determinants of per capita household CO2 emissions (PHCEs) based on capital city level in China

L Liu, J Qu, Z Zhang, J Zeng, J Wang, L Dong… - Journal of Geographical …, 2018 - Springer
Household CO 2 emissions were increasing due to rapid economic growth and different
household lifestyle. We assessed per capita household CO 2 emissions (PHCEs) based on …

Visual special issue: Low carbon development and transformation of cities

J Yan, JC Feng - Applied Energy, 2018 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Cities can act as the engine of social and economic development. Meanwhile, cities are
responsible for about three-quarters of the global energy consumption and the subsequent …

An investigation into neighborhood residents' cognition of and participation in low-carbon behavior: a case study in Chengyang district of Qingdao, China

WJ Peng, XM Wang, GC Zhao, X Wang - International Journal of …, 2018 - witpress.com
To discover potential approaches for meeting increasingly stringent emission controls, a
questionnaire was launched in a newly built gated neighborhood in Chengyang district of …