The Economic Analysis of the Carbon Emissions: Evidence From China

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10.2991/assehr.k.200207.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

carbon emissions, pollution fee levy, vehicle purchase tax, Kuznets curve

Abstract

Carbon emissions exacerbate global climate change. As is known, transitioning away from coal is a cost-effective path to a low-carbon economy. In recent years, China faces the challenge of reducing the carbon intensity of its economy while also fostering economic growth. Undoubtedly, China’s CO2 emissions are directly related to the stages of economic development. According to the statistics of the International Energy Agency and China’s Statistical Yearbook, China’s CO2 emissions in 1984 were about 1.76 billion tons. However, from 1984 to 1996, CO2 emissions showed an upward trend. It is worth noting that in 1997, China’s CO2 emissions began to decline due to the Asian financial turmoil. In 1999, CO2 emissions were 2.92 billion tons. Since then, with the recovery of China’s economy and the growth of energy demand, it reached a record high of 9.19 billion tons in 2013. But after 2014, CO2 emissions began to decline again. Although many articles have discussed the issue of economic growth and pollutants. Few papers focused on the impact of environmental protection tax, and pollution fee levy on the cost of environmental degradation. This paper seeks to fill this gap by developing a theoretical model discussing the relationship between carbon emission and economic growth, In this paper, we take China as a case to discuss the effect. However, due to China has formally levied environmental protection tax since 2018, only one year’s data is available, in order to observe the interaction between carbon emission and economic growth, we utilize vehicle purchase tax, which is relevant to environmental pollution, as an alternative for environmental tax data.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yukun Wang
AU  - Liming Zhang
AU  - Li Zhang
AU  - Fangjun Liu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/17
TI  - The Economic Analysis of the Carbon Emissions: Evidence From China
BT  - Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on Frontiers in Social Sciences and Management Innovation (IAFSM 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 139
EP  - 143
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200207.023
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200207.023
ID  - Wang2020
ER  -