scholarly journals Is China’s target of a 40-45% reduction in carbon dioxide emission plausible?

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mpho Bosupeng
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Carbon Taxation ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Reduce Carbon Dioxide

AbstractIn the early days of industrialisation, economists believed that the ramifications of economic growth will far outweigh the potential damage to the environment. Today the concern is the rising magnitude of emissions. Many economies are under immense pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon taxation and absorption technologies seem to be the main mechanisms controlling emissions in different nations. China proposed her target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 40-45% by 2025. The purpose of this study is to determine if China’s ambition of reducing its carbon dioxide emissions is feasible. This investigation also examines the potential effects of China's emissions on the economic growth of other countries. The study demonstrates that China’s target may not only reduce her output, but may also adversely affect the economic growth of others. This article further reveals that unemployment in China is likely to soar during the reduction in emissions and energy consumption. Additionally, this paper evaluates the effects of green taxation on carbon dioxide emissions. In conclusion, there is a possibility that China may reach her emissions target by 2025. However, the country faces a dilemma between economic growth and environmental preservation. It is recommended that China should explore techniques which will reduce emissions but not impinge negatively on economic growth.

The Study on Community Energy Planning and Emission Reduction in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 1442-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Hua Zhou ◽  
Zi Chao Tan ◽  
Guo Qiang Yang ◽  
She Ming Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Save Energy ◽  
Reduce Carbon Dioxide

Climate change is becoming a highlight of the world. As the world's second largest CO2 emission country, China faces increasing pressure. Energy consumption and utilizing is the major source of CO2 emissions. Optimization of the regional energy configuration can not only reduce energy consumption, but also reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Thus, it will achieve energy conservation and sustainable development. Based on the Eco-city constructed by China and Sino-Singapore, this paper calculates the regional energy-saving under the requirement of existing Energy Conservation Code, plans its energy saving quantity by taking some measurements and then predicts the carbon dioxide emission reductions. The result shows that using effective measures to save energy can reduce 227772t carbon dioxide emissions. Using renewable energy and energy saving measures will reduce 371414t CO2, which has a striking effect. So changing energy structure and using renew energy are main measures to reduce CO2 emission.

scholarly journals Dynamic relationship between urban carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Dynamic Relationship

<p>Urban economic development cannot be separated from energy consumption, and energy consumption directly leads to a large number of carbon emissions. It is of great significance to study the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth for the implementation of energy conservation, emission reduction and the development of low-carbon economy in cities. A new method of dynamic relationship between urban carbon dioxide emission and economic growth is put forward. The carbon dioxide emission data in cities are calculated by using urban carbon dioxide emission measurement method. The data of economic attributes are obtained by using classification algorithm under uncertain data flow environment. Based on this data, a decoupling model of carbon emission and economic growth is constructed to measure economic growth elasticity of urban carbon emissions; Granger causality test model is established to analyze the Granger causality between urban carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth. The experimental results show that the growth rate of urban economy is obviously faster than that of carbon emissions. Economic growth is the Granger causality of carbon dioxide emissions. On the contrary, the implementation of carbon emission reduction measures will not hinder economic growth.</p>

scholarly journals Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Nexus in China: Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Wan-Lin Yong ◽  
Jerome Kueh ◽  
Yong Sze Wei ◽  
Jang-Haw Tiang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Total Export ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Autoregressive Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run

This paper intends to investigate the nexus between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emission, total export and economic growth of China from 1971 to 2014. This study adopted Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test to examine the existence of short-run and long-run relationships among the variables. Empirical findings indicated that energy consumption contribute to economic growth while carbon dioxide emission is impeding the growth. There is a positive long-run relationship between both energy consumption and total export with economic growth of China. However, a negative relationship is observed between carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth. Hence, in terms of policy recommendation, policymakers can implement a balance environment-economic policy; reduce the carbon dioxide emission by imposing carbon tax; promote renewable energy among the industries and households and promoting reserves forest policy is needed for aspiration of sustainable growth for both environmental and economic.

scholarly journals The impact of socio-economic institutional change on agricultural carbon dioxide emission reduction in China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251816
Author(s):  
Deng Jie Long ◽  
Li Tang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Carbon Sources ◽  
Diesel Oil ◽  
The Impact

With the change of social economic system and the rapid growth of agricultural economy in China, the amount of agricultural energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions has increased dramatically. Based on the estimation of agricultural carbon dioxide emissions from 1991 to 2018 in China, this paper uses EKC model to analyze economic growth and agricultural carbon dioxide emissions. The Kaya method is used to decompose the factors affecting agricultural carbon dioxide emissions. The experimental results show that there is a co-integration relationship between economic growth and the total intensity of agricultural carbon emissions, and between economic growth and the intensity of carbon emissions caused by five types of carbon sources: fertilizer, pesticide, agricultural film, agricultural diesel oil and tillage. Economic growth is the main driving factor of agricultural carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, technological progress has a strong role in promoting carbon emission reduction, but it has a certain randomness. However, the impact of energy consumption structure and population size on carbon emissions is not obvious.

Driving Factors Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China Based on STIRPAT Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 1910-1914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiao Zhi Zhao ◽  
Qing You Yan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Stirpat Model ◽  
Factors Analysis ◽  
Secondary Industry

China is developing at relatively high speed, not only the regional development speed should be focused upon, but also the environmental impact of economic growth should be paid attention to, especially the level change of carbon dioxide emission. To some degree, quantity of carbon dioxide emission has become one of the most important indexes for measuring quality of a nations economic growth. Thus, this thesis is trying to analyze the driving relations between economic growth and carbon dioxide. Upon STIRPAT model, ridge regression method and elasticity theory are applied to analyze the influencing factors of carbon dioxide quantity such as the population quantity, Chinas urbanization process, per capita GDP, energy density and the percentage of the secondary industry. Correspondingly, based on the different influencing variables to carbon dioxide emission quantity, needy measures are brought out to control and decrease emissions. Feasible suggestions are trying to improve Chinas economic development quality.

Energy consumption-economic growth relationship and carbon dioxide emissions in China

Energy Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 568-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Fei ◽  
Suocheng Dong ◽  
Li Xue ◽  
Quanxi Liang ◽  
Wangzhou Yang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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