TY - JOUR T1 - Implementation of voluntary agreements for energy efficiency in China JF - Energy Policy Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hu, Yuan AB - Low-energy efficiency and environmental pollution have long been taken as key problems of Chinese industry, although a number of command-and-control and economic instruments have been adopted in the last few decades. In this paper, policy and legislation development for voluntary agreements were summarized. The voluntary agreements pilot project in two iron and steel companies in Shandong Province as well as other cases were analyzed. In order to identify the existing problems in Chinese cases, comparison was made between China and industrialized countries in the practices of energy efficiency voluntary agreements. Based on the analysis, detained recommendations, including the use of supporting policies for voluntary agreements, were raised. It is expected that voluntary agreements could play a more important role in energy efficiency improvement of Chinese industry. VL - 35 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421507002480 IS - 11 ER -