Local strategies for China's carbon mitigation: An investigation of Chinese city-level CO2 emissions

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:178

Article

Cai, Bofeng¹  Guo, Huanxiu²  Cao, Libin¹  Guan, Dabo³  Bai, Hongtao⁴ 

[1] Chinese Acad Environm Planning, Ctr Climate Change & Environm Policy, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China

[2] Nanjing Audit Univ, Inst Econ & Finance, Nanjing 211815, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

[3] Univ East Anglia, Sch Int Dev, Tyndall Ctr Climate Change Res, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England

[4] Nankai Univ, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China

关键词: CO2 emissions;    Carbon accounting;    Local strategy;    Urban development;    China;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.054

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

This paper provides a systematic analysis that identifies the driving forces of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 286 Chinese prefecture-level cities in 2012. The regression analysis confirms the economic scale and structure effects on cities' CO2 emissions in China. If China's annual economic growth continues at the rate of 7%, CO2 emissions will increase by about 6% annually. In addition, climate conditions, urbanization and public investment in R&D are identified as important driving forces to increase the CO2 emissions of Chinese cities. While an increment of the urbanization rate by 1% increases the CO2 emissions by about 0.9%; An increase in R&D investment by 1% can help reduce CO2 emissions by 0.21%. As cities in our study vary greatly based on their industry composition, development stage and geographical location, the patterns of their CO2 emissions are also variable. Our study improves the comprehensiveness and accuracy of previous carbon accounting method by distinguishing the scope 1 and scope 2 CO2 emissions and establishing a high spatial resolution dataset of CO2 emissions (CHRED). The analysis covers almost all Chinese prefectural cities and derives useful implications for China's low carbon development. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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