This editorial establishes the context for our special issue, devoted to exploring CO2 allocation and equity considerations within the framework of China’s ambitions for carbon neutrality. As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, China has made a pivotal development in mitigating climate change efforts with its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. This collection of 16 diverse papers delves into recent advancements, challenges, and…
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China at a Crossroads: An Analysis of China’s Changing Seafood Production and Consumption
China is a key player in global production, consumption, and trade of seafood. Given this dominance, Chinese choices regarding what seafood to eat, and how and where to source it, are increasingly important—for China, and for the rest of the world. This perspective explores this issue using a transdisciplinary approach and discusses plausible trajectories and implications for assumptions of future modeling efforts and global environmental…
Resource misallocation in Chinese manufacturing enterprises: evidence from firm-level data
Despite the important policy and welfare implications of China’s energy issues, to date there has been little investigation from a micro-level perspective of the misallocation of resources in manufacturing enterprises. To fill this gap, this paper deals with resource misallocations in China with special reference to energy and labor inputs. Using a large, novel dataset of manufacturing enterprises from Zhejiang province, we employ a simultaneous…
China’s aquaculture and the world’s wild fisheries
China is the world’s largest producer, consumer, processor, and exporter of finfish and shellfish (defined here as “fish”), and its fish imports are steadily rising ( 1– 3). China produces more than one-third of the global fish supply, largely from its ever-expanding aquaculture sector, as most of its domestic fisheries are overexploited ( 3– 6). Aquaculture accounts for ~72% of its reported domestic fish production,…
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