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Episode: OIES Podcast – Managing the social consequences of the transition away from coal: the case of clean heating in Shanxi Province, China
Description: Much of the world requires winter heating and in most places this heating is still provided by fossil fuels. In this podcast David Ledesma discusses Northern China with Philip Andrews-Speed, Senior Research Fellow at OIES and Yuchao Xu, graduate from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where this problem is particularly acute as coal and biomass have long been the fuel of choice for household heating. In 2016, China's government launched a vigorous programme to deploy "clean heating" fuels and technologies to households. The coal-rich province of Shanxi followed through with its own mix...