CO2 Emission from Fossil Fuel Consumption and Technology Intensity

Santosh Kumar Sahu and Krishnan Narayanan ()

Review of Market Integration, 2014, vol. 6, issue 3, 269-296

Abstract: The contribution of this article lies in computing CO 2 emission at the firm level for the Indian manufacturing sector from 2000 to 2011 and analysing the factors that explain the inter-firm variations in CO 2 emission. The results indicate that there are differences in firm-level emission intensity and they, in turn, are systematically related to identifiable firm-specific characteristics. This study found size, age, energy intensity and technology intensity as the major determinants of CO 2 emission of Indian manufacturing firms. In addition, capital and labour intensity of the firms are also related to the firms’ CO 2 emission intensity. For a sustainable industrial development purpose, the short-run policy implications should be aimed at encouraging firms to invest more in research and development (R&D) and technology imports and in the long run, a firm should be able to adopt cleaner energy to reduce CO 2 emission from the fuel consumption.

Keywords: CO2 Emission; Technology Intensity; Firm Heterogeneity; Indian Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B23 Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0974929215582243

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