Why Are the Stakes So High? Misconceptions and Misunderstandings in China”s Global Quest for Energy Security

摘要：

Ⅰ.Introduction China had been the world”s second largest carbon emitter behind the U.S.for years.On the trends of the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S.Energy Information Administration (2004) estimated that China”s CO2 emissions would not catch up with the U.S.until 2030.However, China”s energy use hassurged since the turn of this century, almost doubling between 2000 and 2007.Despite similar rates of real economic growth, the rate of growth in China”s energy use during this period was more than twice that of the last two decades of the twentieth century (NBS,2009).As a result, China became the world”s largest carbon emitter in 2007,instead of being number two ”until 2030” as estimated as late as 2004.

作者: ZhongXiang Zhang

作者单位: Center for Energy Economics and Strategy Studies,Fudan University,Shanghai,China

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 2013上海论坛

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 75-109

在线出版日期: 2013-05-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）