Addressing Large Developing Country Emissions: The case for strategic Sino-European collaboration under joint commitments

Working paper

The objective of this Report is to explore the potential for addressing developing country greenhouse gas emissions at scale through bilateral ‘Joint Commitment Framework Agreements’ (JCFA). It focuses on the potential to reduce the growth of coal-based emissions in the Chinese power sector through large-scale collaboration between European and Chinese enterprises in the production of electricity from wind. The Report examines the proposition that under a Sino-European JCFA European companies will be more likely to collaborate with Chinese enterprises to transfer and develop low carbon technologies and know-how that will help to achieve jointly agreed carbon emission reductions in the Chinese power sector.

Authors: Muller, B; Xiliang, Z; Robinson, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
• Series: OIES paper
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• Edition: Publisher's version
• Paper number: EV 53
• ISBN: 9781907555107
• Language: English
• Keywords: Renewable Energy; Chinese coal generation; Benito Muller; David Robinson; OIES; EV 53; Foreign Directive Investment in China; Zhang Xiliang; Joint Commitment Framework Agreements; EV53; EU-China Partnership on Climate Change; Sino-European joint ventures; Chinese wind power