A multisectoral decomposition analysis of Beijing carbon emissions

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• 作者：Litong Zhao ; Tao Zhao ; Yanan Wang
• 关键词：Carbon emissions ; Multisectoral decomposition analysis ; Beijing
• 刊名：Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：19
• 期：2
• 页码：565-575
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Sustainable Development; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Industrial and Production Engineering; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Environmental Economics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1618-9558
• 卷排序：19

文摘

Beijing faces a serious problem of carbon emissions and the economic sectors are the main source of carbon emissions. Previous literatures have extensively focused on estimating the impact of carbon emissions of individual sector. Little attention has been paid to the multisectoral carbon emissions. In this paper, a multisectoral decomposition analysis was reported to explore the carbon emissions in Beijing. The emissions are decomposed into energy structure, energy intensity, economic structure (in industry), economic output, and population scale effects by the method of logarithmic mean Divisia index. Agricultural, industrial, construction, transportation, commercial, and other sectors are taken into consideration. The results show that population scale effect is the main factor for increasing carbon emissions in all sectors. The energy efficiency improvements are primarily responsible for the decrease in emissions in the industrial sector, while it increases emissions in construction, transportation, and commercial sectors. The economic output in agricultural and other sectors exerts a positive effect on emissions. In contrast, the energy structure effect only makes a minor contribution to the emission decrease in industrial, construction, commercial, and other sectors.