MIIT action plans calls for a 4 million ton reduction in coal consumption in 2015 and places particular focus on controlling harmful emissions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Yangzte River Delta regions, with overarching sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, VOC and dust control targets. Test projects in these regions will be used to establish national targets. The…
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Columbia FDI Perspectives is an occasional series of perspectives on important and topical foreign direct investment issues. The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment seeks to promote a robust and wide ranging exchange of perspectives in the FDI area. Accordingly, the opinions expressed by individual authors through the Columbia FDI Perspectives do not necessarily reflect the opinions…
Written by Valerie Karplus, an Assistant Professor in the Global Economics and Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project, this paper examines China’s current approach to tackling air pollution and carbon mitigation nationally and argues that more incentives are needed if China hopes to meet…
A new scientific article published on Energy Policy Journal. The integration of Chinese and European renewable energy markets: The role of Chinese foreign direct investment by Ping Lv, Francesca Spigarelli In the renewable energy (RE) sectors, foreign direct investments are becoming an important mean of regional integration between China and Europe, as a result of…
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China just released preliminary 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) results. At 7.4% they missed their annual target (7.5%) by a mere breath – not a huge deal practically, but significant symbolically. More important is the composition of this growth. Consumption is playing a bigger role, as investment falls from former growth rates. Services activity continues…
With more than $50 billion worth of completed deals, Chinese firms continued to be an important driver of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2014. However, anticipation of a different growth model and more liberal outward investment policies have affected Chinese buying behavior and deal structures. This note reviews China’s global outbound M&A activity…
Call for papers: BORN TO BE GREEN: THE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF GREEN START-UPS Southampton Business School, Southampton, UK 21-22 May 2015 *Extended abstract deadline: 10th April 2015 Keynote Speakers: – Prof. David Audretsch (Indiana University) – Prof. Massimiliano Mazzanti (University of Ferrara) – Panel moderator: Prof. Marco Vivarelli (Catholic University of Milan) Special issue:…
The first Poreen’s Knowledge Transfer event on “China’s Environmental Challenges” will take place in Macerata, on Friday November 7th 2014. The event will include several speaches by Experienced Researchers and Early Stage Researchers belonging to the Economic Area. They will have talks on the state of the art of Research activities within Poreen in the…