Abstract
Even with continued improvements in energy efficiency, China could require a two-to three-fold increase in primary energy consumption over the next 25 years to maintain average GDP growth rates slightly lower than those of the past decade. In the short term, only coal can provide such a large expansion in energy supply. However, widespread coal burning has already resulted in a range of environmental and human health damages. To meet its growing energy needs, yet prevent more serious environmental impacts, China must: continue with economic reform; lift remaining price controls on electric power and fuel; encourage the transfer of advanced technologies form abroad; accelerate the adoption of energy efficiency measures; expand coal cleaning; accelerate research and commercial demonstration of clean coal and renewable energy technologies; phase out the use of coal in the residential and commercial sectors; and strengthen environmental policy. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.
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