Evaluating Carbon-Emission Efficiency in China’s Construction Industry: An SBM-Model Analysis of Interprovincial Building Heating

Ruiqing Yuan, Xiangyang Xu (), Yanli Wang (), Jiayi Lu and Ying Long
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Ruiqing Yuan: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China
Xiangyang Xu: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China
Yanli Wang: Beijing CRCC Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd., Beijing 100041, China
Jiayi Lu: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China
Ying Long: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-16

Abstract: In the pursuit of China’s ambitious carbon neutrality goals, optimizing carbon-emission efficiency within the construction sector, a significant emitter, becomes critical. This study employs a super-Slacks-Based Measure (SBM) model and a Tobit regression model to analyze buildings’ heating-related carbon emissions across China, considering urban population density, electricity usage, and building energy consumption and the influencing factors that cause differences in carbon-emission efficiency difference. The results of this study show that the average building carbon-emission efficiency of 30 provinces in China is 0.789; carbon-emission efficiency is 0.89 in the south, higher than 0.69 in the north. After excluding centralized heating emissions, the value of buildings’ carbon-emission efficiency in the northern provinces increases by 0.01, of which the buildings’ carbon-emission efficiency in Jilin Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region shows positive growth, respectively, by 0.12 and 0.17. In terms of influencing factors, there is a significant positive correlation between the scientific and technological levels, the regional economic scale, and carbon-emission efficiency; however, government intervention in the economy has a negative correlation with carbon-emission efficiency. Renewable energy utilization and green-policy adoption emerge as pivotal in enhancing efficiency. The contribution of this study is to underscore the necessity of fostering renewable energy, refining energy-consumption structures, and implementing green strategies to augment buildings’ heating-related carbon-emission efficiency.

Keywords: building heating; carbon-emission efficiency; super-SBM model; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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