The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
This paper aims to investigate the major driving forces dominating energy efficiency of industrial sectors in China. The results show that the energy intensity effect is the major driving force for improving the energy efficiency of the whole industrial sectors. Before 2002, the reduction of energy consumption was the major driving force for improving the energy efficiency of the whole industrial...
The trends of globalization, industrialization, and urbanization point towards ever‐increasing demand from China, and supply is expected and set to respond to the expectations of demand growth. During the first half of the twentieth century, rising life expectancy boosted population growth. By 1950, the population of the world was 2.56 billion. Another major development in global demographics is that...
The Chinese economy has been steadily growing since 1978. During most of the period energy intensity fell. Between 2002 and 2005 however energy intensity increased. In this paper we seek an answer for the overall decrease in energy intensity and temporary increase between 2002 and 2005. Index decomposition analysis is used to decompose energy intensity changes between 2000 and 2009 into three factors:...
In this paper, the vehicle cycle environment impacts of a mid-size passenger car in China is performed, with a special focus on the primary energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The vehicle cycle analysis results show that the energy consumption and GHG emissions of a passenger car in China are about 91.1 GJ and 11.5 ton per vehicle, respectively. And coal as the main process fuel...
By introducing the equation of IPCC guidelines (2006), China's total carbon dioxide emissions from 1953-2008 were calculated. Using Johansen's co-integration tests and Error Correction Model (ECM) preceded by various unit root or non-stationarity tests, this paper tested for co-integration between gross emissions and GDP of China. Findings are as follows: (1) the GDP is the Granger causality of carbon...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) as method, large-scale public buildings which areas are over 20,000 square meters each in Hangzhou of hot summer and cold winter region as objects, the paper studies on the features and rules of CO2 emission and energy consumption. With three typical cases being selected among office, health care and campus buildings, variation of carbon emission indexes are calculated...
The relation between climate and energy is one of the hot issues which government and scholar all around the current world pay close attention to. On one hand the development and utilization of energy influences climate, on the other hand climate change influences the consumption of energy too. Undoubtedly, it is the most urgent environmental problem we face that the global climate becomes warm. Therefore,...
This paper investigates the influence on energy consumption by economic structure in China using panel cointegration and Granger causal test with panel vector error correction (VEC) model. The panel cointegration test reveals the long equilibrium relationship between energy consumption and economic structure in China. The Granger causal test with panel VEC model reveals the unidirectional causality...
With the global "low-carbon economy" booming, energy conservation and emission reduction on tourism is a focus of global concern, because tourism is the important sector of carbon emission. Many tourism regions have proposed the measurements of energy conservation and emission reduction. Research on tourism emission reduction also began to rise. However, energy conservation and emission...
The carbon dioxide emissions of China have been high for a long time. According to the CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Highlights 2010 Edition, as to 2008, total carbon dioxide emissions of China have surpassed the U.S. Building products is an important part of the national economy and construction industry is charged with the main task of the infrastructure in China. Construction activities is...
By the specific analysis of electricity consumption and water supply in nationwide universities, this paper clearly indicates the level of energy consumption recently in relevant area. Then, according to the different climatic zones, the universities are divided into four groups, such as severe cold, cold, hot summer and cold winter, hot summer and warm winter areas, so that we can analyze and focus...
The paper selects China and Canada as samples respectively on behalf of developing countries and developed countries, according to the data from “the BP World Energy Statistics 2009” and the formula about carbon emissions from calculation handbook which in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006, the amount of total carbon emissions, per capita carbon emissions and carbon...
Though two years design and construction phases BASF (Shanghai, China) Canteen Renovation project has been fulfilled in July 2010. The design follows ecological and energy saving principle, demonstrating the new products of BASF and technology development in chemistry branch. The methodic was based on light and color design theory, which found new directions in energy saving aspect to fulfill the...
This paper introduces a field investigation of rural house in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi province in north China, which was a part of a larger research project that targets on developing passive design strategies for rural house in the cold climate zone of north China. To understand the basic conditions of energy consumption and indoor thermal environment of rural houses in the researched region,...
With China's rapid economic development and the world's total primary Energy declining, Energy bottleneck effect on China's economy has become increasing evident. China's economic growth pattern is in the transitional period from extensiveness to intensiveness, the improvement of the energy structure also becomes more urgent. In this paper, the authors put forward some measures to adjust China's energy...
China will more firmly embrace green and low-carbon development ideals and step up efforts in saving resources and protecting the ecological environment. Therefore, the green taxation policy is just part of a portfolio of possible policy changes. Under this background, this article summarizes many countries' green taxation policy, and explains the objective of polluter pays principle and the mechanism...
According to China's eight major economic regions of inland areas, This paper conducts a decomposition research of China's regional energy intensity between 1997 and 2007, from the perspective of regional differences with AVD1 decomposition method, points out that China's energy intensity maintains a downward trend, decline of 28.42% between 1997 and 2007, of which the regional efficiency factor is...
Based on the theoretical principles of Kuznets hypothesis, this paper firstly proposes the Kuznets hypothesis of energy consumption. Empirical analysis in China's 29 provincial regions shows that: The current situations of China's provincial regions have not met the inverted U-shaped curve's inflection of the energy Kuznets hypothesis yet. According to the relationship between Energy consumption and...
There are some basic issues and preconditions easy to be neglected which will affect the establishment of energy stratagem when analyzing the energy situation. The first is overrating the potentials of energy saving and energy consumption reducing. The second is the limited recognitions of the environment carrying capacity. The third is ignoring the huge demand for the fossil energy in the countryside...
This article builds the assessment subsystem which is based on energy use environment, economy and the society according to the theory of the energy economic sustainable development. Then we assess energy economic sustainable development of china. At last, this article gives some countermeasures.
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.