ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF GREEN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

China has promised to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve this goal, the country must implement necessary reforms and focus on innovation in areas of economics and finance. This book explores main challenges that China may face in achieving green and low-carbon development, analyzes green and low-carbon related issues from the economic perspective and proposes countermeasures as required. The book further helps readers understand China's progress in protecting its environment, achieving sustainable development, facilitating green investments and in being a green economy.

Contents:

• Economic Analysis of Green Development:
  • Coordinate Economic Growth and Environmental Protection: An Economic Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve
  • Rethinking the Implications of Economics in Environmental Kuznets Curve
  • Convergence of Environmental Quality and Economic Growth: On Natural Capital and Inequality in the 21st Century
  • Social Capital, Technology Diffusion, and Sustainable Development
  • 'Strong' and 'Weak' Sustainable Development
  • An Economic Analysis of Urban 'Carrying Capacity' — How Big Can a City be?
  • Economic Analysis of the Global Response to Climate Change: From the Cost-Benefit Perspective
• Analysis of Green Development Governance and Policies:
  • Evaluation and Analysis of Environmental Economic Policies in Jiangsu Province
  • Analysis of the Green Investment Effect of Environmental Tax and Fees — A Research Based on Provincial Panel Data
  • Environmental Protection Public Expenditure, Degree of Capitalization, and Economic Growth
  • Comparative Analysis of Environmental Protection Investment and Economic Growth in the Yangtze River Delta
  • Practice and Theory of Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure
  • Impact of Different Corporate Environmental Information Disclosures on Credit Scale — An Empirical Study on Shanghai-Based Listed Companies in High-Polluting Industries
  • The Environmental Information Sharing Mechanism in Zhejiang Province in the Context of Green Finance Reform
  • Green Development and Transformation — Hard Constraints Based on Energy and Environment
  • Free Trade Zone Construction and Economic Transition from the Perspective of Green Development
  • Legal and Economic Analysis of the Lawsuit of Xiaoling Cement Plant Against the Ministry of Environmental Protection
  • Research on Residential Step Tariff and Elasticity Ratio of Electricity Consumption

Readership: Academics, policymakers, undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's environmental protection, sustainable development and green economy.