Overview
- Provides a unique insight into Chinese policy-making in the oil and gas, and energy sector
- Shows detail information about the energy sector in China, promoted by the Chinese government
- Explains the details of an inaccessible business such as hydrocarbon with global effects
- Offers an original analysis on China's energy transition
- Is an open access book
Part of the book series: Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production (AOGEP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This open access book is an encyclopaedic analysis of the current and future energy system of the world’s most populous country and second biggest economy. What happens in China impacts the planet. In the past 40 years China has achieved one of the most remarkable economic growth rates in history. Its GDP has risen by a factor of 65, enabling 850,000 people to rise out of poverty.
Growth on this scale comes with consequences. China is the world’s biggest consumer of primary energy and the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 emissions. Creating a prosperous and harmonious society that delivers economic growth and a high quality of life for all will require radical change in the energy sector, and a rewiring of the economy more widely.
In China’s Energy Revolution in the Context of the Global Energy Transition, a team of researchers from the Development Research Center of the State Council of China and Shell International examine how China can revolutionise its supply and use of energy.
They examine the entire energy system: coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables and new energies in production, conversion, distribution and consumption. They compare China with case studies and lessons learned in other countries. They ask which technology, policy and market mechanisms are required to support the change and they explore how international cooperation can smooth the way to an energy revolution in China and across the world. And, they create and compare scenarios on possible pathways to a future energy system that is low-carbon, affordable, secure and reliable.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: China's Energy Revolution in the Context of the Global Energy Transition
Editors: Shell International B.V., The Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China
Series Title: Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40154-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40153-5Published: 30 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40156-6Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40154-2Published: 29 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-372X
Series E-ISSN: 2509-3738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 700
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 380 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Science and Engineering, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Economic Geology