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Foreword I
China’s Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development: 2020 represents the
latest outcome of research organized and sponsored by Tsinghua-Rio Tinto Joint
Research Centre for Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development, and supported
by Tsinghua Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development. The research
centres on the theme of low-carbon transition in the context of global climate change
and explores the topic of resources, energy and sustainable development which
involves energy transition, pattern of urbanization, urban low-carbon actions, power
system transition, water management, electric cars, and iron and steel industry among
others, based on the practice of China in different fields. The book is expected to shed
light, in a holistic manner, on the issues and interrelationships between resources,
energy and sustainable development amid global climate change by adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, and inform policies and management regarding climate
change and sustainable development.
May 2020
Jiankun He
Chairman of Academic Committee of Institute of
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China