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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Author : Espen Moe
Published in: Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that China will no longer sacrifice the environment for temporary economic growth (CCICED, 2013); a year later Premier Li Keqiang followed up by stating that China ‘will resolutely declare war against pollution as we declared war against poverty’ (Guardian, 2014a; GWEC, 2014, p.14). Whether China lives up to its promises obviously remains to be seen, but clearly environmental and energy issues now attract serious attention from very powerful political and industrial actors. In a world where oil prices, despite their recent dramatic fall, had long been stable at more than US$ 100 per barrel, where peak oil (as in the point of maximum oil production (after which it will inevitably decline)) is fast approaching, and where climate change is becoming an evermore concrete and tangible challenge, a fresh look at energy policy, and renewable energy policy in particular, is very much in order.