China's post-coal growth

Qi, Ye, Stern, Nicholas, Wu, Tong, Lu, Jiaqi and Green, Fergus (2016) China's post-coal growth. Nature Geoscience, 9 (8). pp. 564-566. ISSN 1752-0894

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Abstract

Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution and clean energy have caused China's coal use to peak. It seems that economic growth has decoupled from growth in coal consumption.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.nature.com/ngeo/index.html
Additional Information:	© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited
Library of Congress subject classification:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Sets:	Research centres and groups > Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Project and Funder Information:	Project ID Funder Name Funder ID ES/K006576/1 Economic and Social Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2016 12:09
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67503/

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