The Explanation of Differences in Regional Carbon Emissions in China

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10.2991/gecss-14.2014.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

carbon emissions, affecting factors, differences

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyze the factors affecting the carbon emissions in China, and the central, eastern and western regions of this country respectively, by building models of carbon emission affecting factors and using inter-provincial panel data from 2005 to 2009. This research shows that the carbon emissions and GDP per capita have a relationship of an inverted U-shaped environmental Kuznets curve in China and the eastern region of the country. In reference to the relationship between the unit GDP energy consumption and carbon emissions, this paper also finds the evidence for the existence of U-shaped curves in China and the western region of the country. The increase of technology market turnover contributes to the decrease of carbon emissions in the whole country and western region. But this trend is not obvious in the eastern and central regions. Meanwhile, this paper checks and analyzes the inverted U-shaped curve relation mentioned above statistically by means of Convergence Models.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuting He
AU  - Tianbai Xia
PY  - 2014/01
DA  - 2014/01
TI  - The Explanation of Differences in Regional Carbon Emissions in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 161
EP  - 165
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/gecss-14.2014.42
DO  - 10.2991/gecss-14.2014.42
ID  - He2014/01
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