Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong
<p>To limit the detrimental impacts of climate change, large-scale and rapid decarbonisation is required. China announced the plan to peak carbon emission before 2030 and to reach neutrality by 2060, which is faced with challenges posed by the energy sector including rising energy consumption...
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| description | <p>To limit the detrimental impacts of climate change, large-scale and rapid decarbonisation is required. China announced the plan to peak carbon emission before 2030 and to reach neutrality by 2060, which is faced with challenges posed by the energy sector including rising energy consumption and historical coal-based electricity generation. To complement the rigorous research being undertaken on the national neutrality trajectory, this research focuses on subnational carbon neutrality pathways with for two leading Chinese cities: Beijing and Hong Kong.</p>
<p>This research employed mixed methods to recommend a portfolio of energy-related climate policies for Beijing and Hong Kong. The Low Emissions Analysis Platform modelling tool was first employed to forecast the future energy supply, demand and greenhouse gas emissions under existing policies to provide a technical foundation. Through 32 expert interviews conducted with four stakeholder groups in both cities (academia, green groups, industries, regulatory bodies), it was uncovered that importing green electricity and generating local renewable energy were perceived as the most important policies by respondents.</p>
<p>With the aim to understand how policy measures can be prioritised for outsized emissions reduction, sensitive intervention points (SIPs) were applied as a framework to identify city- level policy interventions with high impact, speed, feasibility, persistence and low risk based on literature review and feedback surveys. With all attributes combined, leveraging the global cost declines in renewable energy is the shared pathway for both cities, facilitated by policies and institutional arrangements to promote importing low-carbon energy and accelerate transport electrification. Alignments were observed between the final SIPs and policies perceived as important by stakeholders, indicating that SIPs are generally intuitive, but policy prioritisation is likely influenced by other individual and collective factors. SIPs are therefore valuable not only for countries, but also for city governments to utilise as a harmonised climate policy prioritisation framework.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:01ca1eae-1037-4a7f-a865-6fccf2b733ec2024-10-10T08:38:36ZAccelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong KongThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_bdccuuid:01ca1eae-1037-4a7f-a865-6fccf2b733ecClimate change mitigationEnergy policyEnglishHyrax Deposit2021Chung, SYAllen, JIves, M<p>To limit the detrimental impacts of climate change, large-scale and rapid decarbonisation is required. China announced the plan to peak carbon emission before 2030 and to reach neutrality by 2060, which is faced with challenges posed by the energy sector including rising energy consumption and historical coal-based electricity generation. To complement the rigorous research being undertaken on the national neutrality trajectory, this research focuses on subnational carbon neutrality pathways with for two leading Chinese cities: Beijing and Hong Kong.</p> <p>This research employed mixed methods to recommend a portfolio of energy-related climate policies for Beijing and Hong Kong. The Low Emissions Analysis Platform modelling tool was first employed to forecast the future energy supply, demand and greenhouse gas emissions under existing policies to provide a technical foundation. Through 32 expert interviews conducted with four stakeholder groups in both cities (academia, green groups, industries, regulatory bodies), it was uncovered that importing green electricity and generating local renewable energy were perceived as the most important policies by respondents.</p> <p>With the aim to understand how policy measures can be prioritised for outsized emissions reduction, sensitive intervention points (SIPs) were applied as a framework to identify city- level policy interventions with high impact, speed, feasibility, persistence and low risk based on literature review and feedback surveys. With all attributes combined, leveraging the global cost declines in renewable energy is the shared pathway for both cities, facilitated by policies and institutional arrangements to promote importing low-carbon energy and accelerate transport electrification. Alignments were observed between the final SIPs and policies perceived as important by stakeholders, indicating that SIPs are generally intuitive, but policy prioritisation is likely influenced by other individual and collective factors. SIPs are therefore valuable not only for countries, but also for city governments to utilise as a harmonised climate policy prioritisation framework.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Climate change mitigation Energy policy Chung, SY Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong |
| title | Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong |
| title_full | Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong |
| title_fullStr | Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong |
| title_short | Accelerating carbon neutrality in Chinese cities: sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of Beijing and Hong Kong |
| title_sort | accelerating carbon neutrality in chinese cities sensitive intervention points for the energy supply and demand sectors of beijing and hong kong |
| topic | Climate change mitigation Energy policy |
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