| With the worldwide climate issues becoming increasingly obvious, the low-carbon economy which has the characteristics of low pollution, low consumption, and low emissions has become the world’s economic development mode. Agriculture has become the second largest greenhouse gas emissions after the industry. Developing low-carbon agriculture has been one of the measures to deal with climate issues. As one of the three pillar industries, agriculture plays an important role in reducing carbon emissions. Taking Chongqing as a background, this thesis made a statement on its development status of low-carbon agriculture, analyzes the influencing factors of low-carbon agriculture and its development mode are discussed, and finally put forward policy recommendations.Based on the low-carbon agriculture-related research at home and abroad, this thesis analysis the present status of development of Chongqing low-carbon agriculture. According to the source of agricultural carbon emissions, agriculture carbon emissions can be divided into three parts, carbon emissions of agricultural land use, carbon emissions of paddy field and carbon emissions of livestock farming. Secondly, as the foundation of STIRPAT model, this thesis calculates the effect of the size of the population, the level of economic development, energy intensity and carbon intensity of agriculture, agricultural mechanization, fertilizer application intensity and degree of urbanization with the ridge regression. Again, on the basis of development model of low-carbon agriculture of foreign countries, this thesis offers some realistic and appropriate proposals. Finally, according to the Chongqing development problems that exist in a low-carbon agriculture, we make some policy recommendations on how to promote low-carbon agricultural development in Chongqing, to continue to strengthen financial support for agriculture; to improve the rural land system; to strengthen the ability to promote agricultural science and technology innovation; to improve the scientific and cultural quality of farmers; to improve carbon trading market and the corresponding transaction mechanisms. |
