Research On The Driving Factors Of Carbon Dioxide Emissions In China From The Income-based Responsibility

Human life is inseparable from the burning of fossil fuels.Since the industrial revolution,the global atmospheric carbon dioxide keeps rising.The global warming brought a serious threat to the living environment and the natural environment of mankind.Therefore,in recent years,the issue of emission reduction has drawn more and more attention frome the governments of all countries.Although China is vigorously developing renewable energy,coal will still occupy a fundamental position in China’s energy structure in the near future.However,the huge amount of carbon dioxide emissions it causes can not be ignored.As the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide,our country is under tremendous pressure of public opinion in the international community and the transformation of the domestic economy from high-emission to low-carbon development also put a lot of pressure on the government.From the perspective of profitability,we analyze the current responsibilities and drivers of carbon dioxide emissions from various industries in our country,and put forward corresponding policy suggestions pertinently.It is very necessary to provide theoretical guidance for low-carbon development and carbon market construction in our country.The main content of this paper is to use the input-output table in WIOD database from 2000 to 2014 to study the situation and drivers of carbon dioxide emissions in China and 35 sectors from the perspective of income responsibility.First of all,use the input-output model to calculate the carbon dioxide emission responsibility of various departments in our country under the income-based responsibility view.Taking the power industry as an example,this paper analyzed the emission responsibility that the power industry should be responsible for from all three perspectives.Then it comes to a conclusion that it is relatively fair to identify the responsibility of emission.Then still taking the power industry as an example,we can see that for the power industry,the production responsibility for carbon emissions is greater than income-based responbility.The carbon emission value is the smallest from the perspective of production-based responsibility.After analyzing the reason,we can see why the method that caculating C02 emissions from the perspective of income-based responsibility is more fair.Secondly,by the structural decomposition analysis method,we can decompose the growth of carbon emissions under the income-based perspective into four driving forces:value added level,production structure,GDP structure and intensity of carbon dioxide emissions.After calculating the total carbon dioxide emissions and discharging each driver contribution value in China and in various industries,we can get the results that the most significant contributor to the growth of China’s carbon dioxide is the value added level brought by economic development.The most important factor that inhibits the growth of carbon dioxide emissions is the reduction in the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions.On the whole,the GDP structure and production structure have more positive effects on the growth of carbon emissions than the inhibition.In the end,the paper puts forward some policy suggestions on the structure of GDP,the structure of production and the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions respectively.In view of the growth of carbon dioxide emissions promoted by economic development factors,this paper proposes ways to make use of market instruments,control of carbon dioxide emissions under the premise of ensuring a healthy and stable growth of the economy.