Chinas Carbon-Energy Policy and Asias Energy Transition
This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with Chinas 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.
China shows a co-evolution of carbon-energy policy and energy transitions from coal to renewables. Assessing how the policy intensifies pressures and motivations to Chinese companies, chapters in this edited volume analyse how the policy has changed energy and CO2 emissions in Asia through the lens of carbon leakage, relocation, and halos. Contributors present in-depth studies on Chinas investments and exports, and also its impacts on Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Japan. Using applied computable general equilibrium and scenario input-output analyses, chapters investigate if regional electricity connectivity reduces new coal power investments through efficiency gain. Arguing that China is shifting from the worlds factory to the leading innovator and Asias demand centre, it is ultimately demonstrated that China is likely to achieve climate targets whereas Asia to increase CO2 emissions and economic reliance on China.
Chinas Carbon-Energy Policy and Asias Energy Transition will be of significant interest to students and scholars of energy, environment, and sustainability studies, as well as Chinese studies and economics.
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 Chinas Belt and Road Initiative. His other publications with Routledge include Chinas Climate-Energy Policy: Domestic and International Impacts.
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Chinas Carbon-Energy Policy and Asias Energy Transition
Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos
Edited by Akihisa Mori
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Chinas Carbon-Energy Policy and Asias Energy Transition Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos
Edited by
Akihisa Mori
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Names: Mori, Akihisa, 1970- editor.
Title: Chinas carbon-energy policy and Asias energy transition : carbon leakage, relocation and halos / edited by Akihisa Mori.
Subjects: LCSH: Energy policyChina. | Carbon dioxide mitigationChina. | Emissions tradingChina. | Investments,
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AsiaForeign economic relationsChina.
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ISBN: 978-1-032-04180-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-04189-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-19090-5 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003190905
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Carbon leakage, relocation, and halo: a framework to understand impacts of Chinas carbon-energy policy on Asias energy transitions
Akihisa Mori
2 Struggles for energy transition in the electricity system in Asian countries: a system complementarity perspective
Akihisa Mori
PART II Chinas 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
Jiayang Wang and Kiyoshi Fujikawa
4 From latecomer to first-mover advantage: why Chinese solar PV manufacturers acquire stronger competitiveness in the global market
Nobuhiro Horii
5 Do Chinese power companies employ investments in foreign power projects as a geographical diversification strategy?
Akihisa Mori
PART III Carbon, leakage, relocation, and halo effect in host countries
6 The economic and carbon impact of Chinas outward foreign direct investment in the power sector
Hikari Ban and Kiyoshi Fujikawa
7 Effect of renewable energy policies on the components exports from Asian countries: evidence from the trade of PV/wind energy with matching econometrics
Yasuhiro Ogura
8 The role of China in energy transition in Indonesia
Maxensius Tri Sambodo
9 Indias energy transition: is China an inhibitor or a catalyst?
Nandakumar Janardhanan
10 Impact of Chinese renewable technology exports on Japans energy transition: the case of the solar photovoltaic industry
Takashi Hattori and Yi-chun Chen
11 Generating or receiving carbon leakages?: an examination of Chinas CO2 emissions in Asia
Le Tuyet Vo and Yiyi Ju
PART IV Countermeasures and future challenges
12 Implications of East Asia electricity market integration on Southeast Asian economies and CO2 emissions
Budy P. Resosudarmo and Yuventus Effendi
13 Chinas carbon-energy policy and Asias energy transition from carbon leakage, relocation, and halo perspectives: conclusions and the future
Akihisa Mori
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