Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities
What are relevant urban development investment strategies for improving building energy efficiency (BEE) and decarbonizing the urban district heating supply in rapidly urbanizing China? Different trajectories of BEE and energy supply technologies are compared in the urban context in a northern Chine...
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| description | What are relevant urban development investment strategies for improving building energy efficiency (BEE) and decarbonizing the urban district heating supply in rapidly urbanizing China? Different trajectories of BEE and energy supply technologies are compared in the urban context in a northern Chinese city. Vigorous improvement of BEE will significantly enhance the prospective financial capacity to facilitate deployment of backstop technologies (e.g. carbon capture and storage) in order to decarbonize the energy supply and achieve the long-term targets of low-carbon buildings. Carbon finance instruments should be used to facilitate public policy to accompany the necessary transition in the urban development process. The government-run efficiency procurement scheme will overcome the problem of insufficient incentive and high transaction costs associated with individual Clean Development Mechanism projects. Appropriate investment strategies (allocation of financial resources over the time frame) will allow local governments to harness the large potentials of carbon emissions mitigation while minimizing the risk of long-term technical lock-in in the built environment in Chinese cities. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-217212019-02-19T05:35:00Z Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities Colombier, M. Li, Jun What are relevant urban development investment strategies for improving building energy efficiency (BEE) and decarbonizing the urban district heating supply in rapidly urbanizing China? Different trajectories of BEE and energy supply technologies are compared in the urban context in a northern Chinese city. Vigorous improvement of BEE will significantly enhance the prospective financial capacity to facilitate deployment of backstop technologies (e.g. carbon capture and storage) in order to decarbonize the energy supply and achieve the long-term targets of low-carbon buildings. Carbon finance instruments should be used to facilitate public policy to accompany the necessary transition in the urban development process. The government-run efficiency procurement scheme will overcome the problem of insufficient incentive and high transaction costs associated with individual Clean Development Mechanism projects. Appropriate investment strategies (allocation of financial resources over the time frame) will allow local governments to harness the large potentials of carbon emissions mitigation while minimizing the risk of long-term technical lock-in in the built environment in Chinese cities. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2011.592665 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Colombier, M. Li, Jun Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities |
| title | Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities |
| title_full | Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities |
| title_fullStr | Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities |
| title_short | Shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern Chinese cities |
| title_sort | shaping climate policy in the housing sector in northern chinese cities |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2011.592665 |