Personal Information

Wang Can, Professor of climate change policy and economics Director, Research Center of International Environmental Policy Dean, Department of Environmental Planning and Management School of Environment of Tsinghua University.


Research Interests

Global climate change economics and policy

Energy-environment-economy systems simulation

Low carbon economy and low carbon city development


Publications (selected)

  1. Cai, WJ, Wang, C*, Chen, JN, Wang, SQ, Green economy and green jobs: Myth or reality? The case of China's power generation sector, Energy, 2011, 36(10): 5994-6003
  2. Zhang, J. and C. Wang. “Co-Benefits and Additionality of the Clean Development Mechanism: An Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2011, 62(2): 140-154
  3. Xianbing Liu, Can Wang, Tomohiro Shishime, Tetsuro Fujitsuka. Sustainable Consumption: Green Purchasing Behaviours of Urban Residents in China, Sustainable Development, 2010, (in press)
  4. Liang Sai, Wang Can, Zhang Tianzhu, An improved input–output model for energy analysis: A case study of Suzhou, Ecological Economics, 2010, 69(9): 1805-1813
  5. Wenjia Cai, Can Wang*, Jining Chen, Revisiting CO2 mitigation potential and costs in China’s electricity sector, Energy Policy, 2010, 38(8): 4209-4213
  6. Liu X., Wang C., Shishime T., Fujitsuka T., Environmental activisms of firm's neighboring residents: An empirical study in China, Journal of Cleaner Production. 2010, 18(10): 1001-1008