Event Title
Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons
Location
AM308, Lingnan University
Start Date
19-6-2009 11:00 AM
End Date
19-6-2009 12:30 PM
Language
English
Description
China is challenged by the imbalance between rapid economic growth and lacking environmental protection. Economic growth and increasingly intensive use of energy are certainly the main causes of environmental degradation in China. However, the central state tries to find a way out of the energy-environment dilemma. In 2005, the Chinese president Hu Jin-Tao emphasized that renewable energy was “an indispensable measure to deal with the increasingly serious issues of energy and environment”. The following year, China's Renewable Energy Law took effect, indicating a turning point in the energy policy.
This paper investigates China’s wind and solar energy, because they both reflect proactive policies and major changes in China’s energy policy. We will discuss the trajectories that are leading from a past policy which was based on more ad hoc and projects, to an increased institutionalization of renewable energy as a strategic choice in China’s energy mix.
Document Type
Presentation
Recommended Citation
Chang, V. P.-F., & Bruyninckx, H. (2009). China's renewable energy policy: From project-based to strategic policy making: Cases of wind and solar. In China and global climate change: Proceedings of the conference held at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 18-19 June 2009 (pp. 372-390). Centre for Asian Pacific Studies and the Environmental Studies Programme, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
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China's renewable energy policy : from project-based to strategic policy making: cases of wind and solar
AM308, Lingnan University
China is challenged by the imbalance between rapid economic growth and lacking environmental protection. Economic growth and increasingly intensive use of energy are certainly the main causes of environmental degradation in China. However, the central state tries to find a way out of the energy-environment dilemma. In 2005, the Chinese president Hu Jin-Tao emphasized that renewable energy was “an indispensable measure to deal with the increasingly serious issues of energy and environment”. The following year, China's Renewable Energy Law took effect, indicating a turning point in the energy policy.
This paper investigates China’s wind and solar energy, because they both reflect proactive policies and major changes in China’s energy policy. We will discuss the trajectories that are leading from a past policy which was based on more ad hoc and projects, to an increased institutionalization of renewable energy as a strategic choice in China’s energy mix.