An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Environmental Quality and Energy Consumption in China

Abstract:

The relationship between environmental quality and energy consumption has become more and more important. This paper firstly develops the index for China’s comprehensive environmental quality evaluation, and employs spss17.0 to conduct factorial analysis and comprehensive analysis on the condition of China’s comprehensive environmental quality between 1995 and 2012. By using Eviews6.0 to build a regression model for China’s environmental quality and energy consumption and exercising stationary test and Granger causality test, this paper also affirms the co-integration relationship between environmental quality and energy consumption in China. Among all energy sources, coal consumption has the closest relationship with environmental quality, and oil and natural gas consumptions are in the 2nd and 3rd place. In the last part, this paper proposes countermeasures and suggestions like optimizing industrial structure, adjusting energy structure and improving technologies in energy utilization.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1073-1076)
• Pages: 2562-2566
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1073-1076.2562
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Yu Zhen Zhao*
• Keywords: Comprehensive Evaluation, Energy Consumption, Environmental Quality, Factor Analysis, Oil Consumption, Relationship

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