China’s recent climate-energy policy, an outcome of contemporary challenges, has generated conflict of interest amongst major stakeholders. Coupled with a boost in demand for oil, gas and coal, as well as a rapid growth in wind and solar power, it has not only affected domestic fossil fuel and renewable energy providers, but has also provoked a resource boom, affecting development pathways internationally.

This book therefore seeks to examine the economic, social and ecological effects associated with China’s climate-energy policy. Assessing how the policy has been and will be formulated and implemented, it analyses the changing use of energy, CO2 emissions and GDP, as well as social and environmental impacts both domestically and internationally. It presents in-depth case studies on specific policies in China and on its resource exporting countries, such as Indonesia, Australia, Myanmar and Mongolia. At the same time, using quantitative data, it provides detailed input-output and applied computable general equilibrium analyses. Arguing that China has actively advanced its climate-energy policy to become a leader of global climate governance, it demonstrates that China ultimately relocates the cost of its climate-energy policy to resource exporting countries.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy, the environment and sustainability, as well as Chinese Studies and economics.

This book examines the economic, social and ecological costs associated with China’s energy policy. Analysing the increase in carbon emissions, it assesses how these costs are domestically and internationally allocated. It presents studies on specific policies in China and on its resource exporting countries, such as Indonesia and Australia.

Part I Why China’s carbon-energy policy matters 1. Climate-energy policy: Domestic policy process, outcome and impacts, Akihisa Mori 2. China’s impacts on global sustainability: Recent change in the consumption-based resource depletion and CO2 emissions, Kiyoshi Fujikawa , Zuoyi Ye and Hikari Ban 3. Revisiting China’s climate policy: The climate-energy conundrum point of view, Akihisa Mori and Mika Takehara Part II Domestic impacts of China’s climate-energy policy 4. Energy system reforms for the reduction of coal dependency, Nobuhiro Horii 5. To what extent must increasing natural gas imports contribute to pollution control and sustainable energy supply in China? Mika Takehara 6. Income distribution effects of a carbon tax in China, Kiyoshi Fujikawa, Zuoyi Ye and Hikari Ban 7. Economic and carbon impacts of the China's NDC and Paris Agreement on China, Hikari Ban and Kiyoshi Fujikawa Part III International impacts of China-induced resource boom and climate-energy policy 8. Impact of the resource boom in the 2000s on Asian-Pacific energy exporting countries, Akihisa Mori and Le Dong 9. Economic and carbon impacts of China's NDC and the Paris Agreement on Asian energy exporting countries, Hikari Ban and Kiyoshi Fujikawa 10. Impact of the China-induced coal boom in Indonesia: A resource governance perspective, Akihisa Mori 11. Upper Mekong Region Energy Development Impacts on Myanmar's socio-ecological systems: Hydropower, Environmental Change and Displacement, Lynn Thiesmeyer Part IV Summary and future challenges 12. Conclusions, Akihisa Mori