Carbon Emission Reduction Path of China: Industrial Policy and Low-carbon Education
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- 10.2991/icemse-19.2019.70How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- China, Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Emission Reduction, Industrial Policy, Low-carbon Education
- Abstract
Carbon emission reduction means reduction of greenhouse gases represented by CO2. Currently China promotes carbon emission reduction by the path of formulating and implementing industrial policies related to carbon emission reduction. Will industrial policy as a carbon emission reduction path be enough to achieve China's carbon emission reduction task? China does not announce official data of carbon-emission quantity from industries, but fossil-fuel consumption data from industries were published by the National Bureau of Statistics. Through multiplying the fossil fuel consumption amount by its carbon emission coefficient, each industry’s CO2-emission quantity was estimated. Based on estimation, the industrial policy path is enough for fulfilling China’s determined contributions which made by Chinese government in Paris Agreement in 2015. That is, to reduce the CO2 emission per unit of GDP by 60%-65% in 2030 compared with 2005. However, the in-depth environmental ethics nature of carbon emission reduction determines that it is insufficient to continuously reduce the emission of greenhouse gas by industrial policy path only. Developing low-carbon education from environmental ethic level will provide more potential for carbon emission reduction for China after 2030.
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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 - Shan OUYANHG AU - Peng NAI PY - 2019/09 DA - 2019/09 TI - Carbon Emission Reduction Path of China: Industrial Policy and Low-carbon Education BT - Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education, Management Science and Economics (ICEMSE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 304 EP - 308 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemse-19.2019.70 DO - 10.2991/icemse-19.2019.70 ID - OUYANHG2019/09 ER -