Driving factors of carbon dioxide emissions in China: an empirical study using 2006-2010 provincial data

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• 作者：Yu Liu ; Zhan-Ming Chen ; Hongwei Xiao ; Wei Yang ; Danhe Liu…
• 关键词：carbon dioxide emission ; heterogeneity ; space spillover
• 刊名：Frontiers of Earth Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：11
• 期：1
• 页码：156-161
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• 刊物主题：Earth Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Higher Education Press
• ISSN：2095-0209
• 卷排序：11

文摘

The rapid urbanization of China has increased pressure on its environmental and ecological well being. In this study, the temporal and spatial profiles of China’s carbon dioxide emissions are analyzed by taking heterogeneities into account based on an integration of the extended stochastic impacts using a geographically and temporally weighted regression model on population, affluence, and technology. Population size, urbanization rate, GDP per capita, energy intensity, industrial structure, energy consumption pattern, energy prices, and economy openness are identified as the key driving factors of regional carbon dioxide emissions and examined through the empirical data for 30 provinces during 2006‒2010. The results show the driving factors and their spillover effects have distinct spatial and temporal heterogeneities. Most of the estimated time and space coefficients are consistent with expectation. According to the results of this study, the heterogeneous spatial and temporal effects should be taken into account when designing policies to achieve the goals of carbon dioxide emissions reduction in different regions.