Relationship Beijing Residential Energy Consumption And Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Expanding domestic demand is one of the important ways to achieve the sound development of the economy. Under the premise of "expanding domestic demand" to promote "energy-saving and CO2emission reduction" has become a hot issue in today’s society. Expanding domestic demand means to boost consumers’ consumption; however, consumption is an important source of energy consumption and carbon emissions, this is in contradiction with the energy saving requirements. In this paper, Measurement and analysis of Beijing residents’ energy consumption and its CO2emissions were carried out in order to explore the relationship between consumption and energy-saving, at the same time, to provide a reference for the government in the field of energy consumption reduction policies.The paper gives a research on Beijing’s energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from the consumers’point of view. By the revelation of the Input-Output(IO) analysis, firstly, the paper use the data from the Statistical Yearbook and Input-Output table, calculating the direct and indirect energy consumption of urban and rural residents in Beijing. Secondly, in using of fossil energy CO2emission coefficients and regional carbon emissions coefficient method, the paper calculated the CO2emissions generated by the consumption of residents. In the end, the paper uses Consumer Lifestyle Approach (CLA), correlation analysis and regression analysis investigated the impacts of consumer behavior, consumption expenditure, income differences on residential energy consumption and its CO2emissions.The research results of this paper are as follows:(1) Beijing residents’ direct energy consumption and indirect energy consumption together accounted for the proportion of total energy consumption reached28.9%, accounted for27.2%of residents’direct and indirect CO2emissions, total emissions.(2) Direct energy consumption per capita of rural residents are more than2times larger than urban residents; on the contrary, from the point of view of the indirect energy consumption per capita, the consumption of rural residents is significantly lower than that of urban residents. The total energy consumption per capita of rural residents is of more than54.6%of the urban residents. There are similar results for the accounting of carbon dioxide emissions.(3) Consumer lifestyle has significantly different impacts on carbon emissions. The consumption of services (such as wholesale, retail and accommodation, food and beverage industry, etc.) consume the largest amount of energy consumption and CO2emissions. Food, clothing and such basic necessities are still important sources of carbon emissions. Compared to rural residents, urban residents are paying more attention to the level of quality of life, their indirect carbon emissions to be significantly higher than that of rural residents.(4) Beijing residents’expenditure is of high correlation with the total energy consumption, electricity, gasoline, natural gas consumption, however, the carbon emissions caused by the growth in expenditure showed a marginal decreasing trend. There is a positive correlation with coal and liquid petroleum gas consumption, which is inversely related.(5) Indirect energy demand and emissions from families of different income levels are different. Wealthy families’energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions are much more than poor families, and wealthy families’CO2emissions efficiency is relatively higher than poor families. The poor ones focused on the consumption to meet the basic needs of life, and the wealthy families of the CO2emissions are more concentrated in the high level services to meet the high quality of life.