China's Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia's Energy Transition: Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos

ISBN-13: 9781032041803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 292 str.

Akihisa Mori

Opis

This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China’s carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies.

Spis treści

Part 1: Energy Transition and Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos: Concepts and Framework  1. Carbon leakage, relocation, and halo: Concept and framework to understand impacts of China’s carbon-energy policy  2. Struggles for energy transition in the electricity system in Asian countries: A system complementarity perspective  Part 2: China's Energy and Industrial Transformation as Push Factors  3. Economic and environmental Impacts of power supply configuration change in China: An application of scenario input-output analysis  4. Change of China’s renewable energy policy and its impact on domestic PV companies  5. Do Chinese power companies employ investments in foreign power projects as a geographical diversification strategy to stringent regulations?  Part 3: Carbon, Leakage, Relocation and Halos Effect in Host Countries  6. The Economic and carbon impact of China’s outward foreign direct investment in the power sector  7. The effect of renewable energy policies on import from Asian countries: Evidence from solar PV/wind energy with matching econometrics  8. The role of China in the development of coal and renewable energy plants in Indonesia  9. India’s energy transition: Is China an inhibitor or a catalyst?’  10. Impact of Chinese renewable technology export on Japan’s energy transition: The case of solar photovoltaic industry  11. Generating or receiving carbon leakages?: An examination of China in Asia  Part 4: Countermeasures and future challenges  12. The implications of East Asia electricity market integration on Southeast Asian economies and carbon emissions  13. China’s carbon-energy policy and Asia’s energy transition from carbon leakage, relocation, and halos perspectives: Conclusions and the future

O autorze

Akihisa Mori is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University and a vice president of the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics. His research focus is on sustainability transitions and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. His other publications with Routledge include China's Climate-Energy Policy: Domestic and International Impacts.