CO2 emissions and their bearing on China＇s economic development: the long view

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文献类型 期刊论文

文献题名 CO2 emissions and their bearing on China＇s economic development: the long view

作者 ZHANGLei  DanielTODD  XIEHui  CHENWenyan  WUYingmei  JIANGWei 

作者单位 Inst.ofGeographicSciencesandNaturalResourcesResearch  DepartmentofGeography 

母体文献 Journal of Geographical Sciences;地理学报: 英文版 

年卷期 2005,15(1)

页码 61-70

年份 2005 

分类号 F12  X511 

关键词 中国  二氧化碳排放  工业化发展  产业结构  能源利用  可持续发展 

文摘内容 Greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions in China have aroused much interest, and not least in recent evidence of their reduction. Our intent is to place that reduction in a larger context, that of the process of industrialization. A lengthy time perspective is combined with a cross-sectional approachChina plus five other countries-and addressed through two general models. The findings are salutary. First, they suggest that a diversified economic structure is consistent with diminished intensity in energy use. Secondly, and the obverse of the first, they imply that a diversified energy structure promotes reductions in CO2 emissions. Finally, one is led inevitably to the conclusion that, together, the findings point to a path for countries to transform their economies while at the same time undertaking to drastically moderate their energy use, switching from a pattern of heavy carbon emissions to one in which lighter carbon emissions prevail. The implications of such findings for environmental management are enormous。