Overview of research on China's transition to low-carbon development: The role of cities, technologies, industries and the energy system

C Wang, A Engels, Z Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
China is experiencing a transition to low-carbon economic development. This paper
assesses the current literature on the potentials of and barriers to China's transition to low …

A holistic overview of the progress of China's low-carbon city pilots

H Li, J Wang, X Yang, Y Wang, T Wu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2018 - Elsevier
Since 2010 China has launched three batches of low-carbon pilot cities to explore feasible
local policies or actions that can be replicated on a larger scale. Based on their official self …

New provincial CO2 emission inventories in China based on apparent energy consumption data and updated emission factors

Y Shan, J Liu, Z Liu, X Xu, S Shao, P Wang, D Guan - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This study employs “apparent energy consumption” approach and updated emissions
factors to re-calculate Chinese provincial CO 2 emissions during 2000–2012 to reduce the …

The socioeconomic drivers of China's primary PM2. 5 emissions

D Guan, X Su, Q Zhang, GP Peters, Z Liu… - Environmental …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Primary PM 2.5 emissions contributed significantly to poor air quality in China. We present
an interdisciplinary study to measure the magnitudes of socioeconomic factors in driving …

Index decomposition analysis applied to CO2 emission studies

XY Xu, BW Ang - Ecological Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Index decomposition analysis (IDA) was first extended from energy consumption to energy-
related CO 2 emission studies in 1991. Since then many studies have been reported …

Multi-country comparisons of energy performance: the index decomposition analysis approach

BW Ang, XY Xu, B Su - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Index decomposition analysis (IDA) is a popular tool for studying changes in energy
consumption over time in a country or region. This specific application of IDA, which may be …

Green inventions and greenhouse gas emission dynamics: a close examination of provincial Italian data

D Weina, M Gilli, M Mazzanti, F Nicolli - Environmental Economics and …, 2016 - Springer
Eco-innovation plays a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions. Exploiting the
consolidated IPAT/STIRPAT framework, this paper studies whether a relationship exists …

Driving forces of Chinese primary air pollution emissions: an index decomposition analysis

W Lyu, Y Li, D Guan, H Zhao, Q Zhang, Z Liu - Journal of Cleaner …, 2016 - Elsevier
Emissions of the fine particulate matters (diameter of 2.5 μm or less) caused by both the
primary particle emissions and the precursor emission sources such as sulfur dioxide and …

Carbon dioxide emission drivers for a typical metropolis using input–output structural decomposition analysis

Y Wang, H Zhao, L Li, Z Liu, S Liang - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
As the capital of China, Beijing is regarded as a major metropolis in the world. Study of the
variation in temporal CO2 emissions generated by the driving forces in Beijing can provide …

Developing a multi-layered indicator set for urban metabolism studies in megacities

C Kennedy, ID Stewart, N Ibrahim, A Facchini… - Ecological Indicators, 2014 - Elsevier
We introduce a new 'multi-layered'indicator set for urban metabolism (UM) studies in
megacities. The indicator set is designed for gathering information on the definition (spatial …