Research on Regional Differences of Carbon Emission in China: Based on Theil Index Method
This paper measures Chinas regional differences of carbon emissions based on Theil index methodology mainly, takes the contribution of interregion and innerregion differences to total value into decomposition, compares the GDPweighted Theil index and the one weighted on industrial added value, mainly focus on the impact of the level of economic development and industrialization on carbon emissions in different regions. The result shows that total difference mainly comes from innerregion differences, which is mainly caused by differences within eastern regions; the overall regional differences of carbon emissions in the eastern, central and western innerregion has taken on a shrinking trend since 1997, but the contribution of all three interregional differences become increasing year by year totally; for overwhelming majority of energy consumption is made by industrial sector, the paper found that Theil index weighted on the added value could better reveal the regional differences in carbon emissions compared to GDPweighted index which is partly masked this differences.
carbonemission Theilindex GDP Industrialaddedvalue
Yimin Zheng Xiao Zhang
Economy and Management CollegeDalian UniversityDalian, China Economy and Management College Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China
国际会议
广州
英文
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2011-05-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）