China's post-coal growth

Ye Qi; Nicholas Stern; Tong Wu; Jiaqi Lu; Fergus Green

doi:10.1038/ngeo2777

China's post-coal growth

Ye Qi, Nicholas Stern, Tong Wu^*, Jiaqi Lu, Fergus Green

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Abstract

Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution and clean energy have caused China’s coal use to peak. It seems that economic growth has decoupled from growth in coal consumption.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	564-566
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Geoscience
Volume	9
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2777
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes

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