Virada verde na china? : um estudo sobre a trajetória da política de energia renovável chinesa (2000-2017)

• Autor(a) principal: Luana Figueiredo Juncal
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/34964
• topic: China; Energia renovável; Planos quinquenais; Lei de energia renovável da República Popular da China; Mudança de agenda política

China is the country that invests more in renewable energy and only in 2017 invested 126.6 billion dollars in the sector. The country’s rapid development in renewable energy technologies is especially noteworthy due to the fact that the use of fossil fuels has been one of the pillars of Chinese economic growth as well as being the largest coal-consuming country and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. From this inquiry, this dissertation investigated how China included the development of renewable energy in its policy agenda. The research objectives are to present and discuss the factors raised by the literature that may explain China's move towards the current renewable energy policy and to demonstrate whether or not there has been a major shift in China's energy policy towards the development of renewable energy. A case study was conducted based on literature review of academic texts and news on the development of renewable energy in China and the content of the 9th to the 13th Five-Year plans and other normative acts were presented. A descriptive analysis of renewable energy investment data from 2004 to 2017 and data on renewable energy installed capacity from 2000 to 2017 in China was also carried out. It was found that the rapid development of renewable energies in China was subsidized through general and specific public policies formulated to encourage its development and to give competitiveness to the sector in relation to energies generated by conventional sources. It were identified concerns about the need to expand the offer of electricity to the population, the long-term guarantee of energy supply, the reduction of pollution and environmental degradation caused by the use of fossil fuels, and the development of a competitive industry and an international market for renewable energy technologies. The Five-Year Plans present general policies and specific targets and the Renewable Energy Law (2006) presents the main specific policies that have enabled the development of the sector. These documents demonstrate that legislation has evolved towards encouraging the development of renewable energies. The analysis of investment data and installed capacity for renewable energy generation also support the objectives contained in the Five-Year Plans and the factors presented in the literature.