David Fridley

TL;DR: Since 1996, China's energy output has dropped by 17%, while primary energy use has fallen by 4%, driven almost entirely by shrinking output from coal mines and declining direct use.

TL;DR: The authors assesses selected policies and programs that China has instituted to fulfill the national goal, finding that China made substantial progress and many of the energy-efficiency programs appear to be on track to meet or exceed their energy-saving targets.

TL;DR: Zhou et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a bottom-up energy end-use model to forecast China's energy and emissions outlook to 2050, which was supported by the China Sustainable Energy Program of the Energy Foundation through the U.S. Department of Energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an exante comparative assessment of the low-carbon development plans and supporting measures formulated for each of China's 8 pilot low carbon cities and find that while the 8 pilot cities have made progress in establishing low carbon plans, key barriers such as a lack of explicit definition for low carbon city, complexity and confusion resulting from several parallel programs, and insufficient supporting policies and market-based instruments may hinder urban development that is truly low carbon.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a cost-effective energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction strategy for China to meet its Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments, but also to reduce its 2050 CO2 emissions to a level that is 42% below the country's 2010 emissions.