Is China's Dependency on Coal a Threat to Its Economic Development?

Zavadska, Miroslava; Morales, Lucía; Andréosso-O’Callaghan, Bernadette

doi:10.1002/9781119705222.ch2

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“…In this regard, environmental politics differentiates China’s efforts to change its energy future. Its future is grounded on an energy framework that has been cemented on fossil fuels with a towering presence in global coal markets (Rajmil et al, 2020; Zavadska et al, 2020).…”

Section: A Shifting Environmental Policy? China’s ‘Ecological Civilis...mentioning

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The Onus on Coal Consumption and the ‘Beautiful China Initiative’: Economic and Policy Implications

Rajmil,

Morales,

Andreosso-O’Callaghan

2023

China Report

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China’s need for rapid economic growth and its hunger for natural resources significantly challenge its economic and policy vision of sustainability, social stability and economic development. The ‘Beautiful China Initiative’ plans to put China on the path of sustainable development in line with the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development GoaSls. The Chinese authorities are expected to reconsider traditional economic policy models to integrate environmental protection while ensuring that their economy proliferates. The shift from a traditional and heavy coal-dependent economy towards greener energy and a sustainable economic model brings additional challenges to China due to its historical dependence on coal as its energy engine. This research paper examines causality patterns between economic growth and fossil fuels energy consumption by analysing coal consumption and carbon dioxide emissions policies using Pesaran’s autoregressive distributed lag model. The research findings offer insights into China’s challenges to transition towards a more sustainable economic model, making the country’s ‘Beautiful China Initiative’ quite complex as it needs to navigate through high levels of environment-friendly economic growth whilst trying to avoid the middle-income trap.

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Section: A Shifting Environmental Policy? China’s ‘Ecological Civilis...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Onus on Coal Consumption and the ‘Beautiful China Initiative’: Economic and Policy Implications

Rajmil,

Morales,

Andreosso-O’Callaghan

2023

China Report

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“…China's domestic energy problems emerge in this context. The country faces major challenges in securing its energy supply and fostering the transition to a more diversified energy model which is less dependent on heavily polluting coal (Rajmil et al, 2020;Zavadska et al, 2020). This step will help align Iran with the massive energy and infrastructural cooperation between Pakistan and China under the CPEC (Rajmil et al, 2020;Zavadska et al, 2020).…”

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How realistic is the China–Pakistan–Iran economic corridor?

Rajmil

Morales

Andréosso-O’Callaghan

2021

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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The economic and political influence of China in the Asian region is growing amidst global geopolitical challenges. Economic corridors such as the new Silk Road have been identified as enablers of strategic growth and geo-economic power development in a context of significant political instability. Beijing's strategic approach and the importance of Pakistan and Iran to its aspiration to realise China's dream through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are examined in this comparative study. The rising role of China in the region and its engagement with Iran and Pakistan and the part that these two countries can play need careful attention. Political and economic joint interests have brought together these three countries with significant links to China's economic corridor and energy projections. But the future of the partnership is very fragile as it is characterised by historical hostilities between Iran and Pakistan that can act as a major impendiment to China's ability to progress. In addition, economic and trade figures show an unbalanced relationship that clearly favours Chinese interests. The BRI and the Chinese plans for those territories still remain blurry as any long-term crisis that characterises fragile and complex international alliances.

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