Decomposition of energy-related CO2 emission over 1991-2006 in China

Ming Zhang, Hailin Mu, Yadong Ning and Yongchen Song

Ecological Economics, 2009, vol. 68, issue 7, 2122-2128

Abstract: This paper presents a decomposition analysis of energy-related CO2 emission in China for the period 1991-2006 divided into three equal time intervals. The complete decomposition method developed by Sun is used to analyze the nature of the four factors: CO2 intensity, energy intensity, structural changes and economic activity. The results show that economic activity has the largest positive effect in CO2 emission changes in all the major economic sectors and China has achieved a considerable decrease in CO2 emission mainly due to the improved energy intensity. However, the impact of CO2 intensity and structural changes is relatively small. Structural changes only exhibit positive effect to the CO2 mitigation in agricultural sector, and CO2 intensity also contributes to the decrease of CO2 emission in transportation sector. Moreover, a formula about CO2 mitigation is presented in this paper, which shows that China has made a significant contribution to reducing global CO2 emission.

Keywords: Decomposition; analysis; CO2; emission; Energy; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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