The findings of a research project on CO2 emissions, led by Prof. WEI Yiming from the CAS Institute of Policy and Management (IPM), were recently reported in monograph entitled the China's Energy Report in 2008.
Off the press on May 15 in Beijing, the book deals with the topic from various aspects: the relations between CO2 emissions and energy source utilization, the characteristics of China's energy consumption and CO2 emissions, factors influencing CO2 emissions under different economic development levels, evolution features of the CO2 emissions by carbon-intensive departments in China, evolution of CO2 emissions in China, capacity of the technologies for reducing CO2 emissions and their impacts, policies for CO2 emission, International carbon market mechanism and its impacts on the reduction, perspective for reducing CO2 emissions in China and related approaches.
The publication is the second volume of the China's Energy Report completed by the IPM Center for Energy Research. The First one, published in 2006, was focused on strategy and policy research for energy sources.
