Optimization Research on Carbon Emissions and Energy Structure of Responding to Climate Change

Abstract:

The convening of Copenhagen Climate Conference marks that carbon emission accepted as a hard constraint in most countries. This paper first reviewed the development course of the carbon emission study; Secondly, the paper forecasts the energy demand and carbon intensity before 2020 of China by the method of the elasticity coefficient; As China's current energy consumption structure cannot reach the 2020carbon reduction target, we optimized China's energy structure, proposing the measures of "speeding up the transformation of economic growth mode, promoting the energy saving of the whole society, accelerating the exploitation of non-fossil energy and developing the coal orderly " accordingly.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 291-294)
• Pages: 1594-1598
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.291-294.1594
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Mei Song, Zong Yuan Lin, Yan Qing Zuo, Tao Chen
• Keywords: Carbon Emission (CE), Carbon Intensity Analysis, Energy Demand Forecasting, Energy Structure Optimization

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