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The economic growth of China is clearly one of the defining trends of our time. The world's most populous nation is undergoing a vast transformation that will redefine the global economy. Chinese industrial production has increased tremendously in recent years, and its consumption of resources has necessarily gone way up as well. These developments will have important impacts on economics, business, politics, and environmental conditions throughout the world. In China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment, and Climate Change,an international group of authorities examines the present status and likely future of China's economic rise and its impact on the environment, with particular focus on the all-important topic of global climate change. The first section addresses directly China's recent growth. Specific topics addressed here include the effects on China of the global credit crunch, determinants of growth, and their prospects for the future. Part II addresses China's environmental and climate concerns, including the impact on human health, their role in domestic politics, the health effects of environmental damage, and China's post- Kyoto climate strategy. Part III looks at the impact, and likely trajectory, of energy consumption in China. Contents Part I. Economic Growth: Determinants and Prospects Includes introduction Part II. Impact of Environment Degradation and Climate Change Part III. Energy Use, the Environment, and Future Trends

This book closely scrutinizes the individual and collective roles played by China, the EU and the USA in contemporary world politics. Examining the three actors’ respective strategic and policy positions on and behaviour towards the flux of the contemporary global order, the analysis focuses on three major issues and challenges: foreign and security policy; economics and trade; and climate change and energy. Discussing their relative power, as well as their interests, beliefs and positions on a set of decisive issues, this book explores bilateral relations between the three powers and the ways in which they may interact trilaterally in a broader global context to shape international politics. Written by a stellar line-up of experts from the fields of politics and international relations, The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA will be of huge interest to students and scholars from within these fields, as well as policy-makers and practitioners more generally.

China's carbon dioxide emissions now outstrip those of other countries and its domestic air quality is severely degraded, especially in urban areas. Its sheer size and its growing, fossil-fuel-powered economy mean that China's economic and environmental policy choices will have an outsized effect on the global environmental future. Over the last decade, China has pursued policies that target both fossil fuel use and atmospheric emissions, but these efforts have been substantially overwhelmed by the country's increasing energy demands. With a billion citizens still living on less than $4,000 per year, China's energy and environmental policies must be reconciled with the goals of maintaining economic growth and raising living standards. This book, a U.S.--Chinese collaboration of experts from Harvard and Tsinghua University, offers a groundbreaking integrated analysis of China's economy, emissions, air quality, public health, and agriculture. It first offers essential scientific context and accessible summaries of the book's policy findings; it then provides the underlying scientific and economic research. These studies suggest that China's recent sulfur controls achieved enormous environmental health benefits at unexpectedly low costs. They also indicate that judicious implementation of carbon taxes could reduce not only China's carbon emissions but also its air pollution more comprehensively than current single-pollutant policies, all at little cost to economic growth.

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in China and Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates about building sustainable societies and to examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change. The authors explore to what extent different nations see climate change as a domestic issue, whilst looking at local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound questions of justice between those nations that are more and less responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change.

China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of China’s key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However, limited by its development stage, natural resource endowment, and other unbalanced developing issues, China is still a developing country. This book shows the reader the real China, which can provide more comprehensive solutions for future global climate regimes. This book includes research into China’s twelfth Five-Year-Plan; low-carbon city pilot schemes; policies and pathways for China’s nationally appropriate mitigation actions; China’s forestry management; China’s NGOs and climate change; the low-carbon 2010 Expo in Shanghai; carbon budget proposals; China’s green economy and green jobs; China’s reaction to carbon tariffs; China’s actions in approaching adaptation; China’s cumulative carbon emissions, and more. China’s Climate Change Policies brings together experienced experts with in-depth understanding of the scientific assessment of climate change and relevant social and economic policies, and senior experts who have participated directly in international climate negotiations. This will help the reader to better understand the 2011 Durban climate change conference, as well as China’s long-term strategy in response to climate change. Weiguang Wang is Associate Secretary of the Party and Deputy President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is now a Professor and a Ph D tutor in CASS. Guoguang Zheng is Secretary of the Party and President of China Meteorological Administration, and is now a Researcher and a Ph.D tutor in CMA. Yong Luo is an Associate Director and Director concurrently, Researcher, and PhD tutor of Climate Change Centre, China Meteorological Administration, is also the Director of the Climate Change Research Laboratory, the Director of China Meteorological Research Institute of Climate Resources Committee, and the Executive Director of Beijing Meteorological Research Institute. Ying Chen is Director of Sustainable Development Office in the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is one of the Senior Researchers and Master Tutor of CASS. Hongbo Chen is an Associate Researcher of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and is majored in the field of Environmental Economics, Carbon Market and Energy Efficient Buildings. Jiahua Pan is currently director, Institute for Urban & Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and professor of economics at CASS Graduate School. GENERAL REPORT:The Future of Climate Regime--from a Chinese Perspective Part 1: Chinese Response to Climate Change and Policy Actions 1. Performance Evaluation for Energy Conservation Targets in the 11th Five-Year Plan 2. Policies and Pathways for China's Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions Through 2020 3.Adaptation to Climate Change in China: Policy, Action and Progress 4.Policies and Actions to Promote Low Carbon Buildings 5.The Capacity of Forest Carbon Sequestration to Address Global Climate Change--Management of the Forestry Sector in China 6. NGOs and climate change 7.Low Carbon Expo and Urban Development Part 2: Thematic Studies 8.Carbon Budget Proposal：A framework for an equitable and sustainable international climate regime 9. The Green Economy Potential and Green Jobs Opportunity in China 10. Is China Overly Concerned About Carbon Tariffs? 11.Towards a Low-Carbon Economy: International Experience and Development Trends 12.Evaluation Methodology of Low Carbon Economies and its Application in China 13. Adaptation Approaches to Climate Change in China: An Analytical Framework 14. Advances in Studies on Accumulative Carbon Emissions