Hui Yuan

The clean energy trade war: assessing the climate costs of U.S. solar tariffs on China’s PV sector

This study investigates how U.S. tariffs on Chinese photovoltaic (PV) products affect the embodied carbon emissions and decarbonization trajectory of China’s PV power sector. We couple a multi-regional input-output model, the Tapio decoupling model, and the GTAP-E computable general equilibrium model. Histor...