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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Jun 19th, 11:00 AM Jun 19th, 12:30 PM

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.