An integrated approach to evaluating the coupling coordination degree between low-carbon development and air quality in Chinese cities

This article presents an indicator system called Low-Carbon and Green Index for Cities (LOGIC) that evaluates the performance of Chinese cities in terms of low-carbon development and identifies areas for improvement. This system issues a score ranging from 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating a better performance in lower carbon growth within a specified time period. LOGIC was applied to a sample of 115 Chinese cities representing a diverse range of population sizes, income levels, geographies and stages of economic and urban growth between 2010 and 2015. The results of this study indicate that these cities have made progress in green and low-carbon development. In addition, more than 90 of the 115 sampled cities experienced GDP growth alongside LOGIC score growth over the selected period, showing that green and low-carbon goals are not antithetical to good economic performance. The average overall index score for all 115 Chinese cities in 2015 was 44.9 out of 100, reflecting China’s heavy reliance on coal and its energy-intensive economy. Low-carbon pilot cities had an average overall index score of 47.0 in 2015 compared to an average of 42.9 for non-pilot cities. These LOGIC results suggest that transforming city economies away from energy-intensive towards high-tech and service industries could facilitate their low-carbon and green growth. This article uses the city of Wuhan as a case study to illustrate the application of LOGIC and its utility in assessing city-level low-carbon efforts.

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Toward low-carbon development: Assessing emissions-reduction pressure among Chinese cities

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111036 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 271 ◽

pp. 111036 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shulei Cheng ◽

Wei Fan ◽

Fanxin Meng ◽

Jiandong Chen ◽

Bofeng Cai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emissions Reduction ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Chinese Cities ◽

Low Carbon Development

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Evaluation of Low-Carbon Development of Chinese Cities in 2018

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies ◽

10.1142/s2345748121500032 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 2150003

Author(s):

CHEN Nan ◽

ZHUANG Guiyang ◽

ZHU Shouxian ◽

WANG Dong ◽

LI Jue

Keyword(s):

Capital Investment ◽

Indicator System ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Central Cities ◽

Chinese Cities ◽

Evaluation Indicator ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Evaluation Indicator System ◽

Low Carbon Development ◽

Low Carbon City

This paper evaluates the low-carbon development of 176 Chinese cities in 2018 using the Low-carbon City Evaluation Indicator System developed by Research Institute for Eco-civilization, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The evaluation shows an overall improvement of low-carbon development of cities in China, with 10 cities scoring 90 points and above, and 106 cities scoring 80–89 points. From the perspective of city category, the low-carbon development scores present an order as follows: service-oriented [Formula: see text]-prioritized [Formula: see text] cities. Geologically speaking, eastern cites perform best, western cities come second and central cities come last. Of the three batches of low-carbon city pilots, the scores follow the pattern of Batch [Formula: see text] 3. Most cities are characterized by high carbon consumption and reduced efforts in low-carbon management and capital investment. Finally, this paper proposes to attach more importance to low-carbon development and strengthen capacity building for low-carbon governance; intensify efforts for constructing low-carbon pilots in order to help achieve the goal of carbon emission peak during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period; and to improve the Low-carbon City Evaluation Indicator System.

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Low-Carbon Development Patterns: Observations of Typical Chinese Cities

Energies ◽

10.3390/en5020291 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 291-304 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Meirong Su ◽

Chen Liang ◽

Bin Chen ◽

Shaoqing Chen ◽

Zhifeng Yang

Keyword(s):

Low Carbon ◽

Chinese Cities ◽

Development Patterns ◽

Low Carbon Development

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Study on the methods of assessment for low-carbon development of Chinese cities

Acta Ecologica Sinica ◽

10.5846/stxb201710241902 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (15) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

石龙宇 SHI Longyu ◽

孙静 SUN Jing

Keyword(s):

Low Carbon ◽

Chinese Cities ◽

Low Carbon Development

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System Coupling and Coordinating Evaluation of Green Low-carbon Development in Coal Enterprises

10.21203/rs.3.rs-139426/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yinna Xu ◽

Guohao Zhao

Keyword(s):

Empirical Analysis ◽

Interaction Mechanism ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Innovation Development ◽

Development System ◽

Low Carbon Development ◽

Coal Enterprises ◽

Degree Of Coupling ◽

Carbon System ◽

Coordination Degree

Abstract Green low-carbon development is the direction for coal enterprises to cope with overcapacity, industrial restructuring and enterprise transformation. Based on the connotation of green low-carbon development, this paper deconstructed the green low-carbon development of coal enterprises into a process of coupling and coordinated development of green low-carbon system (GLCS) and innovation development system (IDS) from a systematic perspective, further deconstructed the green low-carbon system into two subsystems of environment (ES) and resources(RS), and deconstructed the innovation development system into two subsystems of innovation (IS) and growth(GS), built the coupling and coordination evaluation model and grey relational degree model of green low-carbon development of coal enterprises, and made an empirical analysis of China Shenhua Energy Company Limited ("CSEC") and China National Coal Group Corp (“CNCGC”) in 2010-2017. The empirical analysis showed that the coupling and coordinating level of GLCS and IDS of CSEC and CNCGC is both not high, but there are differences in evolutionary trends and causes, and the coupling and interaction mechanism needs to be strengthened; the coupling coordination degree between ES and IS is good, and between RS and GS is the worst in CSEC, and the coupling coordination degree between RS and GS is highly correlated with the coupling coordination degree between GLS and IDS, and improving the level of IS is an important direction for CSEC; But in CNCGC the coupling coordination degree between subsystems fluctuates greatly, and there is no persistent good and persistent bad coupling, but in the past two years, the level of coupling coordination among subsystems has a rising trend, and the level of RS and the degree of coupling coordination between ES and IS have the highest correlation with the degree of coupling coordination between GLS and IDS. Coal enterprises should improve the interaction mechanism among subsystems, strengthen the driving role of green innovation, and promote green low-carbon development.

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