Visualizing the evolution of per capita carbon emissions of Chinese cities, 2001–2016

Weiting Xiong, Zhicheng Liu, Shaojian Wang and Yingcheng Li
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Weiting Xiong: School of Architecture, Southeast University, China; Media lab, MIT, USA
Zhicheng Liu: School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China
Shaojian Wang: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, USA

Environment and Planning A, 2020, vol. 52, issue 4, 702-706

Abstract: Abstract As the world’s largest carbon emitter, China is under great pressure to cut down carbon emissions. Understanding the evolution of carbon emissions across Chinese cities is important for policymakers when allocating carbon emission quota among these cities. This paper draws upon the Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO 2 to calculate city-level per capita carbon emissions in China from 2001 to 2016. Overall, we find that per capita carbon emissions of Chinese cities have been generally on the rise during the 2001–2016 period. However, there has been on average a modest decline in per capita carbon emissions of cities in China’s Yangtze River Delta region and Pearl River Delta region from 2011 to 2016, after a remarkable increase during the 2001–2011 period. Besides, the average north-south gap has been enlarged, with northern cities having a relatively higher level of per capita carbon emissions.

Keywords: Carbon emission; climate change; cartogram; ODIAC; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X19881665

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