An International Comparison of CO₂ Emission Performance and Reduction Potential Using Environmental Production Technology

Abstract:

CO2 emission performance and reduction potential indicators are proposed in this paper by environmental production technology under total-factor framework. Based on this, we give an empirical research on 49 world major emitting countries from 2001 to 2007. The result shows: the average performance of all countries only has very small fluctuation, staying at 0.65 to 0.67; America and Europe’s performance is relatively high and Asia is the lowest but its gap with other countries is shrinking. Now CO2 emission reduction potential has shown an up-trend year by year in these countries, especially for China, India and Japan in Asia.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 193-194)
• Pages: 193-197
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.193-194.193
• Online since: August 2012
• Authors: Qun Wei Wang, Shi Long Ge
• Keywords: CO₂ Emission Performance, CO₂ Reduction Potential, International Comparison

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