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Managing the decline of coal in a decarbonizing China
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.4 ) Pub Date : 2024-09-27 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.918
Michael R. Davidson

Pressures to address climate change are eroding the privileged role coal has held in China throughout its modernization. Phasing down coal requires a suite of supply‐ and demand‐side tools to both reduce production (and therefore, maintain sufficiently high prices) and shift to coal alternatives across diverse consumption sectors. This review outlines contours of the coming coal transition by documenting coal's rise in modern China, its status in key debates of today's energy system, and the range of modeling scenarios of coal's future to mid‐century. In addition, through an analysis of current efforts and impacts in four transition policy areas—supply‐side, demand‐side, employment and social impacts, and stranded assets and fiscal revenues—it identifies gaps and future recommendations. Emerging scholarship on enhancing political feasibility and fostering a “just transition” needs to move beyond global cases and address highly localized and temporally bound impacts.This article is categorized under:

The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Future of Global Energy

Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy

更新日期：2024-09-27

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