China
Transforming the Global Comfort Cooling Market: China’s Opportunity for Economic and Climate Leadership
Cooling is becoming a hot topic in discussions related to mitigating climate change as it is possibly the single largest end-use risk to our climate goals. With temperatures rising due to global warming, compounded by rapid urbanization and increasing income levels, exponential growth in demand for comfort cooling shouldn’t come…
Highlights of China’s Energy Transition and Carbon Reduction Efforts in 2018, Part 2
The year 2018 was a challenging one for the global energy transition and carbon reduction. Global carbon emissions were projected to rise more than 2 percent in 2018, mainly due to solid growth in coal consumption and sustained increases in oil and gas use. Even so, countries around the world,…
Highlights of China’s Energy Transition and Carbon Reduction Efforts in 2018, Part 1
The year 2018 was a challenging one for the global energy transition and carbon reduction. Global carbon emissions were projected to rise more than 2 percent in 2018, mainly due to solid growth in coal consumption and sustained increases in oil and gas use. Even so, countries around the world,…
Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement in China
The past year has been an exciting time for corporate renewable energy procurement in China. The Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) released three drafts of a new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy for comment and intends to implement this policy on January 1, 2019. Concurrently, an increasing number of companies…
9 Hot Topics in Carbon Reduction and the Energy Industry in China in 2017, Part 2
The year 2017 was an impressive one for China in its effort to achieve economic growth while reducing carbon emissions. Based on scenario analysis in the Reinventing Fire: China report launched by Rocky Mountain Institute in 2016, China can do this by decreasing primary energy demand and increasing the…
