Global carbon reduction and economic growth under autonomous economies

2019 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 719-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leying Wu ◽  
Changxin Liu ◽  
Xiaozhe Ma ◽  
Genbo Liu ◽  
Changhong Miao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Global Carbon

Cities, commons, and the unilateral provision of public goods

2021 ◽  
pp. 004711782110370
Author(s):  
Nina Kelsey
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
International System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Reduction Activity ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Global Carbon ◽  
Municipal Level

The rise of climate-active municipalities – cities and towns voluntarily creating carbon reduction policy substantially more stringent than their host countries or the international system as a whole – presents a puzzle. Countries, with greater resources and the capacity to create binding agreements to overcome public goods problems, appear to view carbon reduction as an unappealing burden. So why are municipalities, with fewer resources and no way to guarantee a coordinated global effort, so eager to take on the potential disadvantages of stringent carbon reduction? Based on examination of municipal-level carbon reduction activity in Sweden and Portugal, I argue that in fact local-level climate activity represents not a burden but a tool. Municipal climate policy forms the basis for ‘paradiplomacy’ that captures goods for cities, creates international linkages for municipalities, and allows direct participation in setting the terms of global carbon commons policy. The evidence suggests that the nature of the climate commons – incompletely structured from a legal and political perspective, and open to access and intervention by actors at multiple levels – provides unique opportunities for actors to act as makers rather than takers of global governance structure and diplomatic effort in a critical area of emerging international policymaking.

Relationships between Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Export in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4544-4547
Author(s):  
Di Wang ◽  
Guo Zhong Sun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Export Structure

China's CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2010 were calculated as well as two economical models were established, and the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) and export trade was analyzed. The result shows that the relations between China's carbon emissions and GDP showing the "N" type. Economic growth and export trade had significantly promoted China's carbon emissions, while the relations between FDI and China's carbon emissions are not significant. During the past years, exports have played an important role in promoting china's economic development. However, the main exporting industries are energy and emission intensive, which reveals disadvantage for carbon reduction. To reverse the negative impact of the export to china's carbon dioxide emissions, export structure should be optimized, and the outdated technology, equipment and products should be eliminated, while energy-conservative and environmental friendly industries should be promoted.

scholarly journals An analysis of overlapping terms to define articles key words

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Celestino de Andrade ◽  
Epaminondas Gonzaga Lima Neto ◽  
Franciso Sandro Rodrigues Holanda ◽  
Luiz Diego Vidal Santos ◽  
Lucas Celestino De Andrade Júnior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Relationship Networks ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Global Carbon

Several ways of structuring sources of innovation have been provided in order to achieve competitiveness and reduce the impacts during a crisis time. The use of renewable technologies that also reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and dependence on fossil fuels has been encouraged. The objective of this study was to identify the main groupings of terms through the VOSviewer tool, related to technology transfer in fuel cells found from searching in the Scopus database repository. The structuring of relationship networks of the terms of greater co-occurrence of technology transfer in fuel cells enabled a verification based on clear definitions, providing a synthesis of the most researched devices, or potentially found in the Scopus database. The search provided a number of 170 articles in an unbiased way presenting an overview of the main understanding of selected articles from 2015 up to the present, indicating central operators to be considered, as well as innovation perception to support future economic growth, focusing on most significant terms on the searched parameters.

Progress in Recycling of Plastic Packaging Wastes

2013 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 90-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Guo He ◽  
Chun Yan Huang ◽  
Hao Chang ◽  
Li Bo Nie
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Great Proportion ◽  
Chemical Recycling ◽  
Mechanical Recycling ◽  
Plastic Packaging ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Separation Technology ◽  
Packaging Industry ◽  
Positive Strategy ◽  
Global Carbon

The plastic packaging accounts for great proportion in the packaging industry, resulting in great confrontation and challenge for global carbon reduction development because of the plastic packaging wastes (PPW) generation. Thus the fully reasonable utilization of the PPW presents a positive strategy. Based on the international practical policy and demand of PPW management, the article classified the recycling and separation technology, and the reuse and utilization disposal approaches of the PPW. Firstly, it defined the PPW’s source, classification and chemical composition, focusing on the recycling and separation technology principles and practices. Then it discussed several PPW disposal approaches emphasizing on the recycling, and summarized the principles and practices of mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, and energy recycling and biodegradable utilization on the PPW. Finally, it presented a suggestion on recycling and utilization of PPW.

scholarly journals The Spatiotemporal Pattern of Decoupling Transport CO2 Emissions from Economic Growth across 30 Provinces in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Zheng ◽  
Yingjie Hu ◽  
Suocheng Dong ◽  
Yu Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Spatiotemporal Pattern ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
International Panel ◽  
Local Practices

Since 2005, China has become the largest emitter of CO2. The transport sector is a major source of CO2 emissions, and the most rapidly growing sector in terms of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in China. This paper estimated CO2 emissions in the transport sector across 30 provinces through the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) top-down method and identified the spatiotemporal pattern of the decoupling of transport CO2 emissions from economic growth during 1995 to 2016 by the modified Tapio’s decoupling model. The CO2 emissions in the transport sector increased from 103.10 million ton (Mt) in 1995 to 701.04 Mt in 2016. The year, 2005, was a turning point as the growth rate of transport CO2 emissions and the intensity of transport CO2 emissions declined. The spatial pattern of transport CO2 emissions and its decoupling status both exhibited an east-west differentiation. Nearly 80% of the provinces recently achieved decoupling, and absolute decoupling is beginning to take place. The local practices of Tianjin should be the subject of special attention. National carbon reduction policies have played a significant role in achieving a transition to low-carbon emissions in the Chinese transport sector, and the integration of multi-scale transport CO2 reduction policies will be promising for its decarbonisation.

scholarly journals Consumption versus Technology: Drivers of Global Carbon Emissions 2000–2014

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Jiborn ◽  
Viktoras Kulionis ◽  
Astrid Kander
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Global Emission ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Emissions ◽  
Global Carbon ◽  
The Eu

This study utilizes recently published environmental extensions to the World Input–Output Database (WIOD) to compare production-based, consumption-based and technology-adjusted carbon emissions for 44 countries and country groups for the period 2000 to 2014. Results show some significant shifts in global emission trends compared to similar studies of the period before 2009. For 20 European Union (EU) countries and the US, emissions decreased over the period regardless of measure, and the same was true for the EU. Since GDP grew in 18 of these countries, the results provide unambiguous evidence for absolute, albeit modest, decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions. The large increase in global emissions that nevertheless occurred during the period was driven almost entirely by increasing consumption in China and developing countries.

Decoupling and decomposition analysis of carbon emissions from economic output in Chinese Guangdong Province: A sector perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Ming Zhao ◽  
Rongrong Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Major Factors

South China’s Guangdong Province, the Chinese largest provincial economy and the global 14th biggest economy, has been facing a huge challenge of achieving economic growth without emission growth. Developing new strategy for making economic growth compatible carbon reduction requires better understanding of the decoupling carbon emission from economic growth. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive decoupling and decomposition analysis of carbon emission from economic output in Guangdong Province from a sector perspective. We firstly calculate carbon emission in six sectors based on the energy consumption of each sector and carbon coefficient of 13 types of fuels during 2000–2014, and then quantify the decoupling status between CO2 emissions and economic growth in those six sectors by using the Tapio decoupling index, finally, investigate the influencing factors of emissions by using the decomposition techniques. The modeling results show that agricultural sector has strong decoupling, industrial, transport and others sectors are weak decoupling; construction and trade sectors are expansive negative decoupling. We also find that energy intensity and economic output are the major factors influencing carbon emission, also the effects of energy structure and emission factor among six sectors are studied. Some policy recommendations finally are put forward.

scholarly journals Achieving China’s Long-Term Carbon Emission Abatement Targets: A Perspective from Regional Disparity

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4244
Author(s):  
Yong Bian ◽  
Zhi Yu ◽  
Xuelan Zeng ◽  
Jingchun Feng ◽  
Chao He
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Regional Disparity ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Emission Abatement ◽  
Low Carbon Development

As China is the largest greenhouse gas emitter and has the characteristics of significant regional disparity, the issue of regional low-carbon development strategy is of vital importance for the achievement of the country’s long-term emission targets. This work focused on China’s long-term carbon emission abatement from the perspective of regional disparity. We firstly analyzed the national emission trajectories consistent with the current Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), 2 °C, and 1.5 °C goals in two economic growth pathways by 2050 using a linear programming model, then classified the provinces into three categories, and compared results of different scenarios of regional disparity patterns, economic growth rates, and emission targets. Results showed that different regional patterns led to different required carbon reduction targets for all categories, and the regional emission reduction measures had to be stronger in a higher growth rate or a more stringent emission target, especially for the developed areas. A scheme of regionally coordinated low-carbon development was then recommended for the formulation of long-term regional emission targets, and carbon reduction strategies for categories were proposed in terms of energy mix optimization, industrial transformation, and technology innovation, which is of great policy implication for China in regional development and national emission targets enhancement.

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