China's renewable energy and energy efficiency policies toward carbon neutrality: A systematic cross-sectoral review

Y Yang, K Lo - Energy & Environment, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The ambitious targets of peaking CO2 emissions before 2030 and reaching carbon
neutrality before 2060 (Goal 3060) have emerged as the driving force in the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Global ecological civilization: An analysis of macro-level policies of the Belt and Road Initiative

Q Geng, K Lo - Research in Globalization, 2023 - Elsevier
The critical study of China's influence on global sustainability is imperative, given its
emergence as a global power. This paper examines China's leading environmental …

Responsible governance: challenges and prospects in Lithuanian rural areas

R Lankauskienė… - Social Responsibility …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose This research aims to define the novel attitude toward social responsibility
phenomena from a multi-level governance perspective and, based on the Lithuanian case …

Promoting green buildings in China's multi-level governance system: A tripartite evolutionary game analysis

Q Hu, F **ong, GQ Shen, R Liu, H Wu, J Xue - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-level governance (MLG) represents a big challenge in promoting green buildings
(GBs) in China. This study aims to provide policy insights for promoting GBs under MLG. The …

Carbon emission trading schemes induces technology transfer: evidence from China

H Cai, Z Wang, Z Zhang, X Xu - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon emissions trading schemes (ETS) are critical environmental regulation policies that
can reduce regional CO 2 emissions and promote innovation. China's carbon ETS, applied …

Electric cooperatives and the political economy of rural electrification in Africa: Insights from Uganda

K Lo, B Kibalya - The Electricity Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Rural electrification is a crucial process of enhancing the modern energy access of rural
communities which is an important global development goal. Electric cooperatives have …

Eco-cities as urban laboratories of Chinese ecological modernization: eco-experimentation and the modernization of urban governance

M Liu, K Lo - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Eco-cities have emerged as important sites for urban experiments on ecological
modernization (EM). China has fully embraced this approach by building hundreds of high …

Transforming the rhetoric of Just Energy Transition Partnerships into reality: The devil lies in the details

A Banerjee - PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Urgent political action is required to arrest the rise in global temperature within the 1.5° C
target of the Paris Agreement. Rising to this challenge, a series of Just Transition Energy …

“Small Sacrifice for the Greater Good”: Decoding Just Transition in a Chinese Peripheral Region

X Hu, W Tang, X Zhang, D Jie - Social Inclusion, 2024 - cogitatiopress.com
The notion of just transition is important and debated in discussions about climate change
and low‐carbon shifts. This study aims to refocus on just transition from a spatial …

The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation

Y Yang, K Lo - Energy Research & Social Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate experimentation is an influential governance strategy for enacting socio-technical
and policy innovations. In this study, we investigated how upper-level governments in China …