Spatial Differences and Influential Factors of Urban Carbon Emissions in China under the Target of Carbon Neutrality

Kai Liu, Ziyi Ni, Mei Ren and Xiaoqing Zhang
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Kai Liu: College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
Ziyi Ni: College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
Mei Ren: College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
Xiaoqing Zhang: College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 11, 1-14

Abstract: Cities are areas featuring a concentrated population and economy and are major sources of carbon emissions (CEs). The spatial differences and influential factors of urban carbon emissions (UCEs) need to be examined to reduce CEs and achieve the target of carbon neutrality. This paper selected 264 cities at the prefecture level in China from 2008 to 2018 as research objects. Their UCEs were calculated by the CE coefficient, and the spatial differences in them were analyzed using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA). The influential factors of UCEs were studied with Geodetector. The results are as follows: (1) The UCEs were increasing gradually. Cities with the highest CEs over the study period were located in the urban agglomerations of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and Chengdu–Chongqing. (2) The UCEs exhibited certain global and local spatial autocorrelations. (3) The industrial structure was the dominant factor influencing UCEs.

Keywords: urban carbon emissions; carbon neutrality; spatial differences; influential factors; exploratory spatial data analysis; Geodetector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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