Study On The Agglomeration And Heterogeneity Of Energy Consumption Carbon Emissions In Guangdong Province

With the convening of the 1979 Copenhagen Conference,global warming has gradually aroused wide attention.In recent years,each country has actively responded to the problems brought by climate warming,the main cause of which comes from carbon dioxide emissions.Therefore,the issue of carbon emission reduction is the top priority.As a big province topping domestic economic growth and one of the provinces carrying out low carbon pilots,Guangdong province is facing a contradiction between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions.Therefore,it has paid much attention to realize carbon emission reduction,which means that this study is of great practical significance.Using spatial econometric model,this thesis analyzes the panel data of per capita energy consumption carbon emissions of the 21 cities in Guangdong Province from 2006 to 2015,and tests whether there is a spatial effect in per capita energy consumption carbon emissions among the 21 cities.If there is,then what kind of agglomeration feature does it present in space? Meanwhile,it analyzes the spatial impacts of its influencing factors and the spatial influencing mechanism.Subsequently,this thesis analyzes the spatial heterogeneity of the influencing factors of carbon emissions.Some policy suggestions are put forward at the end.The results show that from 2006 to 2015,there is a strong spatial correlation for per capita energy consumption carbon emissions,featured by forming different types of clusters.With time passing,the H-H agglomeration occurs a decreasing trend,while the L-L agglomeration tends to amplify.What's more,we find that the added value of secondary industry has the greatest impact on local per capita energy consumption carbon emissions.There is certain space spillover effect,which means that the local emissions can be influenced by the changes of per capita GDP,energy intensity and per capita private car ownership of neighboring regions.This thesis finds the spatial heterogeneity of different factors' impacts on carbon emissions quite significant,which distributes continuously in space.At the end,this thesis proposes corresponding policy suggestions based on empirical results.Also,it clarifies the limitations of this study and puts forward some prospects for future research.