Driving forces of CO2 emissions and mitigation strategies of China’s national low carbon pilot industrial parks

Yu, Xiang, Chen, Hongbo, Wang, Bo, Wang, Ran and Shan, Yuli (2018) Driving forces of CO2 emissions and mitigation strategies of China’s national low carbon pilot industrial parks. Applied Energy, 212. pp. 1553-1562. ISSN 0306-2619

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Abstract

In an effort to address climate change, in 2013 China launched the world’s largest government-driven carbon emission reduction programme, the National Low Carbon Industrial Parks Pilot Programme (LCIPPP). This paper analyses this newly developed pilot program. To deepen our understanding of the causes and the impact of industrial park CO2 emissions, we use the STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology) model and data from 20 pilot industrial parks involved in the LCIPPP for the period 2012–2016. This study quantitatively evaluates the effect of CO2 emissions on output, energy structure, energy intensity, industrial structure, R&D intensity, and population change in different regions and nationally through an elasticity coefficient method. The results confirm that an increase in output and energy intensity is a dominant contributor to the growth of CO2 emissions whereas an increase of the share of tertiary industry and R&D intensity has significant effects on reducing CO2 emissions. The elasticity of energy intensity and renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions in the eastern region of China is the highest, indicating that using renewable energy to reduce CO2 emissions for the industrial parks is more effective in the eastern region as compared to the central and western regions of the country. The elasticity of population is significantly negative in both the central and western areas while it is positive in eastern part of China, thereby illustrating that promoting labour intensive industries will be an effective way to reduce CO2 emissions for the industrial parks in China’s central and western regions. Our study reveals that differentiated low carbon development pathways should be adopted. Concrete policy implications for reducing CO2 emissions are also provided.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	low carbon industrial park,co2 emissions,stirpat model,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2018 08:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 04:04
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68066
DOI:	10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.114

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