Philip Andrews-Speed

China as a Global Clean Energy Champion

Lifting the Veil

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This book considers China's role as a rising champion of clean energy and document the policy decisions and actions which have underpinned this evolution. It considers the construction of the world's largest fleets of advanced coal-fired power stations, wind farms and solar photovoltaic arrays, examines sustained efforts to reduce national GDP intensities of energy and CO2 emissions, and assesses the rhetoric of government announcements on national policy and international commitments, including the Thirteenth Five-year Plan for Energy (2016-2020). The book notably considers the factors that have supported these achievements, includi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Zhang, Sufang

ISBN: 978-981-1334-92-4
EAN: 9789811334924
Produktnummer: 29649745
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 339 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'628 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
Abbildungen: 17 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Philip Andrews-Speed is a Senior Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has 35 years in the field of energy and resources, starting his career as a mineral and oil exploration geologist before moving into the field of energy and resource governance. Until 2010 he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. His main research interest is the political economy of energy and resource governance. Recent books include China, Oil and Global Politics (with Roland Dannreuther) and The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy.Sufang Zhang is Professor at the School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), China. Before joining the NCEPU in 1993, she worked in provincial government as a project officer in charge of international aid programmes. Her research field focuses on energy policy, China's renewable energy policy in particular. She has directed and participated in many renewable energy research projects supported by China's central and local government, as well as international organizations such as the Energy Foundation China. Recent research projects include Institutional Constraints to the Renewable Energy Development in China.