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A multisectoral decomposition analysis of Beijing carbon emissions

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Beijing faces a serious problem of carbon emissions and the economic sectors are the main source of carbon emissions. Previous literatures have extensively focused on estimating the impact of carbon emissions of individual sector. Little attention has been paid to the multisectoral carbon emissions. In this paper, a multisectoral decomposition analysis was reported to explore the carbon emissions in Beijing. The emissions are decomposed into energy structure, energy intensity, economic structure (in industry), economic output, and population scale effects by the method of logarithmic mean Divisia index. Agricultural, industrial, construction, transportation, commercial, and other sectors are taken into consideration. The results show that population scale effect is the main factor for increasing carbon emissions in all sectors. The energy efficiency improvements are primarily responsible for the decrease in emissions in the industrial sector, while it increases emissions in construction, transportation, and commercial sectors. The economic output in agricultural and other sectors exerts a positive effect on emissions. In contrast, the energy structure effect only makes a minor contribution to the emission decrease in industrial, construction, commercial, and other sectors.

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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by the Nation Natural Science Foundation of China (71373172), Social Science major projects of Chinese Ministry of Education (15JZD021) and the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Research Fund Plan (15YJA790091). The authors wish to thank Dr. Jidong Kang for his comments and suggestions. The authors also express their gratitude to postgraduate Yidi Wu (Northwestern University) and Nan Zhang (Peking University) for providing linguistic support.

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  1. College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Litong Zhao & Tao Zhao

  2. College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, No. 3 Taicheng Road, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China

    Yanan Wang

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Zhao, L., Zhao, T. & Wang, Y. A multisectoral decomposition analysis of Beijing carbon emissions. Clean Techn Environ Policy 19, 565–575 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-016-1249-1

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