題 目：The Pricing of Carbon Emissions from the Business Perspective in Northeast Asia
主講人：Xianbing Liu (Senior Policy Researcher and Task Manager)
時 間：2013年12月24日（星期二）15:00
地 點：主樓六層會議室
主講人簡介：
Dr. Xianbing Liu is currently a senior policy researcher and task manager at Kansai Research Centre of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (KRC/IGES). He has worked for IGES over six years (Since July of 2007). Using two years and a half (October 2004 to March 2007), he got a Ph.D. from Okayama University of Japan. Before coming to Japan, Dr. Liu served the Department of Science, Technology and Standards of State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA, now the Ministry of Environmental Protection) for around seven years. His research interests focus on the analyses of environmental, energy and climate policies from the micro-business perspective. He has fruitful publications in international academic journals, like ‘Energy Policy’, ‘Energy Economics’, ‘Applied Energy’, ‘Energy for Sustainable Development’, ‘Journal of Environmental Management’ and ‘Journal of Cleaner Production’, etc. He is invited as an anonymous reviewer frequently by the journals as mentioned above.
內容簡介：
Aiming to support the discussions of climate policies from the business perspective, Kansai Research Centre of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (KRC/IGES) arranged a project, namely ‘Market-based Instruments (MBIs) for Improving Company’s Carbon Performance in Northeast Asia’, during 2010 to 2012. The MBIs project targets the three major economies in this region, including Japan, China and the Republic of Korea, and gives the focus to how to design carbon pricing tools acceptable for the industry. This lecture introduces the research outputs from the MBIs project, particularly the empirical analyses in China. The main contents include the measurement of energy saving practices of Chinese companies and the determinants, the estimations of carbon prices affordable for the companies using the approach of willingness-to-pay (WTP), and the analysis of company’s preference to the alternatives of carbon pricing policies through a choice experiment. This lecture may enhance the understanding of company’s opinions to carbon pricing tools, which are viewed cost-effective but always against by the industry.
