The book provides readers with essential insights into key issues in connection with planning, developing and financing sustainable energy projects in China that are relevant for practitioners, investors and developers involved in the emerging sustainable energy sector. It offers readers a deeper understanding of these contemporary issues by drawing on the lessons learned in real-world sustainable energy and green finance development activities in China, which are driven by central planning and policy implementation and complemented by investments and finances from public-private partnerships.

Provides the latest insights into and advances in creating a low-carbon economy in the world's largest country by population, China Pursues an interdisciplinary approach, combining policy, planning, finance, and economics Includes real-world case studies from China, including the Hong Kong SAR

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Development of the sustainable energy in the Greater Bay Area of China: Policy and planning perspectives.- Renewable and sustainable energy through the power generating sector.- Carbon trade in Guangdong: Opportunities and Challenges.- A comprehensive framework for green financing in the Greater Bay Area.- Domestic Green financing strategies through the Stock Exchange of Shenzhen.- International Green financing strategies: Hong Kong.- Green credit for renewal of energy facilities: Cases with ADB.- Sustainable energy through smart buildings.- Utility perspectives about financing renewable and sustainable energy projects.- Electric vehicles for the Greater Bay Area.