1. China can oiler domestic emission cap-and-trade in post 2012.
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GUAN, DABO and HUBACEK, KLAUS
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GOVERNMENT policy , *GREENHOUSE gases , *EMISSION control , *GOVERNMENT policy on energy consumption , *GOVERNMENT policy on climate change - Abstract
The authors opine on China's role in controlling greenhouse gas emissions to address global climate change. Though the authors acknowledge that China appears to be willing to impose a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions, they believe that the country owes more to the effort considering its national contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Instead of achieving a reduction in its energy intensity, China is said to have had an increase in same between 2005 and 2009.
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- 2010
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