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Passive cooling energy systems are significantly important in achieving efficient design and performative built environment. Encouragingly, there are many passive cooling energy systems at three spatial levels of macro, meso and micro. In this research study, these energy systems are identified and are assessed in a SWOT analysis evaluation. Apart from social and economic implications that are broad and effective for most of passive cooling energy systems, this study focuses on the energy systems’ implications across five indicators of practice, health, environment, energy and policy, which are significant for disciplines of sustainable energy systems and the built environment. This study aims to evaluate the interdependency of each indicator across three spatial levels and then argue for methods that can be considered for potential implementation of passive cooling energy systems. Furthermore, this study offers a holistic overview of all available passive cooling energy systems and argue based on interplay between five indicators across the three studied spatial levels. This study focuses on warmer climate zones (e.g. hot and dry; hot and humid), where passive cooling is expected to me more effective and obligatory. As a result, this study aims to help energy specialists, policy makers, planners and designers to evaluate how they can utilize passive cooling energy systems based on the key studied indicators. Finally, this paper gives an overview of gaps in policy and practice implementation of such systems in practice and their effectiveness at various spatial levels of the built environment.

Abstract Climate change promotes the energy system reform. To achieve the INDC, The state as well as provinces and municipalities needs further reform and establish a favorable system and a mechanism for low-carbon development. This study firstly disaggregated energy consumption of Shanxi in 2010 by sector and process, which pointed out 60% of coal was transported to other provinces and industrial sector took up 74% of final energy consumption. Then this paper downscaled the population and GDP using the regression downscaling algorithm and projected the energy service demand of process and sector based on the methodology of China TIMES model. The energy service demand of building and transport would keep increasing and the industrial sector would reach a peak value and then decreasing. With the hypothesis about energy structure, we projected the emissions of Shanxi. This case study is a simplified method to analyze the provincial energy consumption and project energy service demand and emission which can be applied to all the provinces in China.

AbstractThe large cities such as London, New York and Shanghai are tended to create lots of employment opportunities, but per capita carbon emissions are huge. It is a vital problem about how to provide enough employment opportunities and reduce per capita carbon emissions during the process of urbanization in China. The main of this article think “the Zipf-type city system in area “can achieve the goal of “efficiency and low carbine”.

AbstractLow-carbon energy and constraints of resources and environment will increasingly become two important factors inhibiting China's economic development in the future. According to the relationship and coordinating mechanisms among energy consumption, carbon dioxide emission and economic development, This paper establishes the two-dimensions evaluation indicating system based on balanced. Use data development analysis, through the fact data of some typical provinces in 2009, we make a comprehensive assessment of its historic coordination, analyze the degree of coordination and the reasons for the contradiction, strive to source the dialectical unity from similarities and differences, and finally proposed some political ideas and recommendations on promoting China's future coordinating development among economy, energy, and environmental.

AbstractThe paper descriptions the connotation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS), probes into the significance of CRS to Chinese corporation. Finally, brings forward the countermeasure to cope with CRS challenges, which contain increasing drumbeating for CRS to urge whole community attention, expedite the steps of corporate system reformation so that swelling corporate strength to take on CRS, adjust economy structure to promote industry structure upgrade, quicken lawmaking and exert the function of media, consumer’ association, labor union and so on in order to amplify the mechanism of supervision and restriction for CRS.

AbstractFinance are required to construct a new innovative financial model based on environment protection.The low-carbon finance development based on carbon emissions demands and carbon trading will promote innovation of China's environmental finance system. Development and construction of low-carbon finance is a systematic engineering. China must take the establishment and improvement of low-carbon finance system to the nation's strategic position, construct carbon finance system from seven aspects as the environment system, control system, regulatory system, organization system, market system, business system and instruments system, in order to have more discuss and decision power in priority of pricing and participating right of quote currency.

AbstractUrban biogas project is important to satisfy the growing energy demands and improve the energy mix. Since the economic profits and environment impacts are essential factors for feasibility of construction and utilization of urban biogas projects, it is crucial to assess their economic and ecological performances. This paper modified the traditional cost-benefit analysis based on emergy accounting. Supporting environment which was neglected by conventional cost-benefit analysis was incorporated into the accounting boundary from emergy perspective. Moreover, the costs and benefits were calculated with emergy metric to quantify both economic and environmental contributions. The results showed that the payback period was 4.26 years due to the potential environment investments. The modified accounting framework through combining emergy theory with conventional cost-benefit analysis may unveil the real cost and benefit of urban biogas project via an energy numeraire.