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Climate change mitigation in Chinese megacities: A measures-based analysis of opportunities in the residential sector
- Source :
- Applied Energy. 184:769-778
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- China’s commitment to the UNFCCC to peak its emissions by 2030, or sooner, signaled a long anticipated shift in China’s model of development with far reaching consequences. Cities in China, and particularly the residential sector in cities, will be charged with making significant reductions in emissions growth even as rates of urbanization continue to climb. Focusing on Beijing and Shanghai, this paper carries out a measures-based economic analysis of low carbon investment opportunities in the residential sector. Results find significant opportunity: between 2015 and 2030, BAU levels of CO2 emissions could be reduced by 10.2% in Beijing and 6.8% in Shanghai with the adoption of economically attractive low carbon measures. While these headline results underline the case for low carbon investment in the residential sectors of these megacities in China, a closer analysis provides insights for understanding the economics of decarbonisation in cities more generally.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Natural resource economics
020209 energy
Climate change
02 engineering and technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
12. Responsible consumption
Residential buildings
Beijing
Energy(all)
Urbanization
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
China
Civil and Structural Engineering
Energy
Mechanical Engineering
1. No poverty
Measures-based analysis
Building and Construction
Investment (macroeconomics)
Residential sector
Carbon
Megacities
General Energy
Megacity
Climate change mitigation
13. Climate action
Business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03062619
- Volume :
- 184
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Energy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d2e76fa89eb456ffe54a9da170547cde
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.07.112