wAbstract
@This paper analyze the characteristics of China's regional CO2 emissions and effects of economic growth and
energy intensity using panel data from 1997 to 2009. The results
show that there are remarkable regional disparities among eastern,
central and western areas, regional elasticities of per capita
GDP and energy intensity on CO2 emissions,
which reflect the regional differences in economic development,
economy structure and restraining function of energy intensity
decrease on the emission. Energy intensity reducing is more effective
to emission abatement for provinces with higher elasticity of
energy intensity, but may not be significant for provinces with
lower elasticity. The inverse distribution of energy production
and consumption, regional unfairness caused by institutional factors
like energy price and tax system result in inter-regional CO2 emission transfer embodied in the power transmission.
The calculation indicates that the embodied emission transfer
was gradually significant after 2003, from eastern area to the
central and western areas, especially energy production provinces
in central area, which leads to distortion on the emission and
emission intensity. The regional emission reduction targets and
supporting policies should be customized and consistent with the
actual situations rather than setting the same target for all
the provinces.
Keywords: Regional CO2 emission; Panel data;
Inter-regional CO2 emission transferx
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
@2.1. Data
@2.2. Analysis model
3. Characteristics of China's regional CO2
emissions
@3.1. Economic transition and current energy and environmental
policies
@3.2. The emission trends during 1997-2009
@3.3. Spatial distribution
4. Analysis on the regional CO2 emissions
5. Inter-regional CO2 emission transfer embodied
in the power transmission
@5.1. Problem statement and methodology
@5.2. Characteristics and influence of CO2
emission transfer
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Supplementary materials
References