Regional and provincial CO2 emission reduction task decomposition of China's 2030 carbon emission peak based on the efficiency, equity and synthesizing principles

Yan Li, Yigang Wei, Xiaoling Zhang and Yuan Tao

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, vol. 53, issue C, 237-256

Abstract: China has promised to reduce 60–65% of its 2005 carbon emission per GDP unit in 2030. This study aims to decompose China's emission reduction task to regional and provincial levels according to efficiency, equity, and synthesizing principles, respectively, during 1996–2015. Results show the following: (1) Through the cluster analysis of eight indexes including shadow price, China's provinces can be divided into three sub-regions; (2) In regional level, Sub-region 2 should take the largest carbon reduction proportion, accounting for about 60%; Sub-region 3 and Sub-region 1 should take 30% and 10% respectively;(3) On provincial level, the provinces that account for more than 5% of carbon dioxide emission reduction task of China are Shandong (9.33%), Shanxi (8.83%), Hebei (7.56%), Jiangsu (6.90%), Sichuan (6.40%), Guangdong (5.23%), and Inner Mongolia (5.20%);(4) Considering the emission reduction costs, it is best to decompose tasks according to the equity principle in the provincial level.

Keywords: CO2 emission; Reduction task decomposition; Efficiency principle; Equity principle; Synthesizing principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2020.02.007

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