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2025 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
10. Challenges for the Advancement of Clean Energy in China
Author : Marisela Connelly
Published in: Transition to a Safe Anthropocene in the Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
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Abstract
In this chapter we discuss the work done by the Chinese government to encourage the use of clean energy by establishing an institutional framework, with laws that limit the use of coal. China’s economic growth process since the 1980s has led to the use of coal and oil in large quantities. In 1993, the country became a net importer of oil. At the turn of the twenty-first century, while Chinese leaders were aware of the need to commit to limiting their use of fossil energy, they also knew that they could not stop their economic growth. The pollution problems generated gave rise to the development of renewable energies, such as solar, wind and hydraulic. Provincial leaders are an important element in the process of transition to the use of less polluting energy. However, on occasion, economic imperatives have led them to favor the use of coal. They raise the intermittency of renewable energies and therefore the need to advance in decarbonization gradually.