Driving forces behind the stagnancy of China's energy-related CO2 emissions from 1996 to 1999: The relative importance of structural change, intensity change and scale change

Energy Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 319-335

  Wu, Libo ^a   Kaneko, Shinji ^a   Matsuoka, Shunji ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Energy related CO2; Index decomposition

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAS EMISSIONS; PERSONNEL; POWER PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

ENERGY INTENSITY; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES;

ENERGY POLICY;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENERGY USE; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 4243187276     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2003.08.003     Document Type: Article

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