Regional Difference and its Influencing Factors of China's CO₂ Emission Changes

Abstract:

Abstract. Regional difference of China's CO₂ emission is basically in line with the trend of China's economic development that the emission is higher in the eastern coastal areas and lower in the western inland areas. The characteristic of the changes of the total CO₂ emission is that the growth rate significantly accelerated after 2000. The basic factor which acts as a drive of CO₂ emission increase is economic scale factor and the energy saving factor contributes to the decrease of CO₂ emission. The driving power of the population factor and energy conversion factor is weak especially the influence of energy conversion factor is very instable. All the provinces are driven by positive driving force in economic scale factor and most provinces with great driving power are located in the eastern coastal areas. All the provinces are driven by positive driving force without expectation in energy conversion factor and most provinces whose energy saving efficiency improvement is of range small are driven poorly are located in the inland. Provinces are mostly driven positively in population size factor and this is related with size and orientation of driving force and population growth. The reason of the great difference of energy conversion factor is connected with energy consumption scale and change of CO₂ emission energy unit consumption.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 524-527)
• Pages: 3655-3661
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.524-527.3655
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Hong Wu Zhang, Lin Yun Shi, Zi Rui Lan, Jia Hui Yin
• Keywords: Factor Analysis (FA), Low-Carbon Economy (LCE)

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