Consumption-Based Adjustment of Emissions-Intensity Targets: An Economic Analysis for China’s Provinces

China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) aims to achieve a national carbon intensity reduction of 17 % through differentiated targets at the provincial level. Allocating the national target among China’s provinces is complicated by the fact that more than half of China’s national carbon emissions...

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Main Authors: Springmann, Marco, Zhang, Da, Karplus, Valerie Jean
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105784
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9792-508X