China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson

   Pages 1-3

3. A Survey Analysis of Energy Use and Conservation Opportunities in Chinese Households

   • Chu Wei, Ping Qing, Feng Song, Xinye Zheng, Yihua Yu, Jin Guo et al.

   Pages 5-22

4. Household Energy Saving in China: The Challenge of Changing Behaviour

   • Philip Andrews-Speed, Guo Ma

   Pages 23-39

5. Prospects for Energy Savings and GHG Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency

   • Youguo Zhang

   Pages 41-60

6. Energy and Pollution Efficiencies in China’s Regions

   • Jin-Li Hu, Tzu-Pu Chang

   Pages 61-74

7. The Legal Challenges of Legislation and Policies Relating to Energy Conservation and Energy Efficiency in China

   • Haifeng Deng

   Pages 75-91

8. Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategies in Japan and Their Implications in China’s Future Energy Development

   • Mikiko Kainuma, Osamu Akashi

   Pages 93-112

9. Back Matter

   Pages 113-121

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This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both policymakers and decision makers in China and other countries can benefit from studying the challenges and opportunities in China’s energy development.

• China’s energy development
• Building life-cycle
• Low-carbon transition
• Carbon emission reduction
• Energy efficiency in China
• Energy conservation in Japan
• GHG Emission Reductions
• Pollution Efficiencies
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Bin Su

Dr. Su Bin joined the Energy Studies Institute in September 2011 after finishing his PhD in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his Master’s degree in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. He also has two Bachelor degrees: a BSc in Statistics and BEng in Electronic Information Engineering, both from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004. His main research interest is energy and environmental systems modeling and analysis, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency, embodied energy/emissions, carbon footprint and carbon pricing. Dr. Su is presently Associate Editor of Energy Economics (ISSN: 0140-9883), and referee for around 30 international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Elspeth Thomson received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interests span Asian energy security, energy economics and energy and the environment. Besides her book tracing the history of China’s coal industry, and several edited collections, she has published numerous articles and book chapters on many aspects of the various types of energy consumed and traded in Southeast, North and South Asia. Through the 1990s she taught at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Lingnan University in Hong Kong. From 2001-2007, she was a Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute at NUS where she was a China energy specialist.

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