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Published on: December 4, 2016
Impacts of regional development on emissions in China's transport sector
Yiwen Wu1, Rong Yuan2, Yuchen Pan3
1School of Economics and Business Management, Chongqing University, Shazhengjie 174, Chongqing, 400040, China.
Abstract:
The CO2 emissions in China's transport sector increased from 349.00 Mt in 2005 to 723.87 Mt in 2017. Thus, a number of climate change policies are being implemented to adjust regional structure and to decrease the emissions in China's transport sector at the regional level. However, few studies explored the impact of changes in regional structure (that is, measured regional share of the added value of transport sector) on emissions in China's transport sector. Therefore, based on the Kaya identity and LMDI analysis, we decompose 8 factors (including carbon intensity, energy structure, energy intensity, turnover intensity, transport intensity, regional structure, per-capita traffic activity, and population size) to analyze the driving factors of emissions in China's transport sector. The period 1997-2017 is divided into four phases according to the growth rate of emissions. The results show that regional structure increased CO2 emissions in China's transport sector between 2013 and 2017. The fast transport development in the Southwest region, reflected by the increase in the share of total transport value added, resulted in emissions growth during 2013-2017. Moreover, the change in the growth rate of the regional transport sector's value added is positively correlated with the change in the regional share of value added, which is positively correlated with the change in regional emissions.
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