Electric Power ›› 2016, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (8): 106-109.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.2016.08.106.04

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Research on Regional Differences of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Performance Embodied in China’s Industrial Electricity Consumption

HOU Jianchao, GUO Juan   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090,China
  • Received:2015-10-28 Online:2016-08-10 Published:2016-08-12
  • Contact: This work is supported by Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Project “Difference and driving factors of provincial carbon emissions in electricity production and carbon emissions embodied in electricity consumption in China” (No. 2012BJB006).

Abstract: Taking a cue of the theory of carbon dioxide emissions embodied in international trade, this paper calculates provincial carbon dioxide emissions embodied in China’s industrial electricity consumption by using provincial energy balance table in the period of 1995-2013. Based on the method of the Theil index,the regional differences of carbon dioxide emissions performance embodied in China’s industrial electricity consumption are measured and the overall differences are decomposed. The results show that the overall differences of carbon dioxide emissions performance embodied in China’s industrial electricity consumption, which are mainly caused by the internal differences of a region, tend to increase. Since 1995, the contribution of the eastern region’s internal differences to the overall differences tends to decrease and the contribution of the middle & western region’s internal differences to the overall differences tends to increase. The contribution of regional differences to the overall differences tends to decrease. The causes for the differences and their changes are analyzed and the corresponding policy recommendations are given.

Key words: embodied carbon dioxide emissions, performance, regional differences, Theil index

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