China's post-coal growth
Qi, Ye; Stern, Nicholas; Wu, Tong; Lu, Jiaqi; and Green, Fergus
(2016)
China's post-coal growth.
Nature Geoscience, 9 (8).
pp. 564-566.
ISSN 1752-0894
Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution and clean energy have caused China's coal use to peak. It seems that economic growth has decoupled from growth in coal consumption.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Climate-change mitigation,Energy efficiency,Energy supply and demand,Sustainability |
| Departments | Grantham Research Institute |
| DOI | 10.1038/ngeo2777 |
| Date Deposited | 18 Aug 2016 12:09 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67503 |