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At the crossroads: can China grow in a low-carbon way?

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  • Julien Chevallier

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This timely Handbook reviews many key issues in the economics of energy and climate change, raising new questions and offering solutions that might help to minimize the threat of energy-induced climate change.

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  • Julien Chevallier, 2013. "At the crossroads: can China grow in a low-carbon way?," Chapters, in: Roger Fouquet (ed.), Handbook on Energy and Climate Change, chapter 31, pages 666-681, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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