Grey Relational Analysis on the Relationship between Economic Development and Carbon Emissions in Hubei Province
The problem about promoting the rapid economic growth while effectively reducing CO2 emission has aroused great attention of scholars both at home and abroad. Researches show that there are differences in the relationship between economic development and carbon emissions in the different historical stages of the different regions. This paper took Hubei Province as the survey region, by means of the decomposition model of CO2 emissions, accurately calculated CO2 emissions from 2001 to 2010 in Hubei Province, selected Hubei Province’s GDP and the three industries’ GDP as indicators of economic development, used the method of grey relational analysis to calculate grey correlation degree of Hubei Province’s GDP, three major industries’ GDP and CO2 emissions, carried on the comparative analysis of the relationship between economic development and CO2 emissions of Hubei Province in combination with China’s corresponding results, specifically put forward policy suggestions on energy conservation and emissions reduction in Hubei Province, so as to provide the theoretical reference for the development of low carbon economy in Hubei Province.