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Spatial Characteristic of Coal Production-Based Carbon Emissions in Chinese Mining Cities

Gang Lin, Dong Jiang, Donglin Dong, Jingying Fu and Xiang Li
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Gang Lin: College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Dong Jiang: State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Donglin Dong: College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Jingying Fu: State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Xiang Li: College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to investigate CO 2 emissions in the production of coal sources at the prefecture level and to analyze their spatial distribution and regional differences based on the spatial autocorrelation and standard deviational ellipse analysis. The results indicate that Chinese coal production from 2018 will most likely generate 485.23 million tons of CO 2 emissions, and there still exists an obvious gap between the five coal development districts in terms of their CO 2 emissions. A significant clustering pattern and positive spatial autocorrelation are revealed in the coal production-based carbon emissions in China. In addition, the spatial pattern of coal production-based CO 2 emissions has an obvious central tendency and directional trend, and the ellipse direction is quite consistent with the Aihui–Tengchong Line. Our findings suggest that energy policy-makers should be concerned about the carbon emission effect when implementing regional coal development plans and actively guide the formation of a low-carbon spatial strategic pattern of coal production with a directional distribution of CO 2 emissions perpendicular to the Aihui–Tengchong Line.

Keywords: carbon emissions; spatial autocorrelation; standard deviational ellipse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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