Research On The Decoupling Relationship Between My Country’s Export Trade Growth And Carbon Emissions

In order to adapt and mitigate climate change and to meet own development needs,China urgently needs to change the mode of economic growth and vigorously develop low-carbon economy.However,before seeking ways to save energy and reduce emissions,we must clarify the concept that carbon emissions are different from other pollution,in particular because it has externalities.With the rapid development of international trade and the increasing carbon leakage of trade,it is indisputable that trade liberalization affects the carbon emission of all countries.China’s export trade has developed rapidly since the reform and opening up,and has become an important force to promote China’s rapid economic growth.In 2010,our country became the largest exporter in the world.Export products caused a great deal of carbon emissions,which mainly come from energy consumption in the process of product and product circulation.Therefore,in the total amount of China’s carbon emissions,the export of carbon emissions is rapidly rising with the rapid growth of foreign trade.Governments should promote the coordinated development of environmental protection and export trade and achieve the development of"low carbonization"in export trade under the trend of pursuing the goal of low-carbon development.The decoupling between economic growth and carbon emissions reflects the requirements of low-carbon economic development.Similarly,low-carbon export trade means that while the scale of export trade is increasing,there is no longer a large amount of CO₂ emissions associated with it.In order to achieve this goal,it is necessary to study the decoupling relationship between China’s export trade and its carbon emissions.Based on this,this paper,by using China’s input and output data,based on the competitive I-O model and expand Tapio decoupling model,to measure the decoupling relationship between China’s export trade and its carbon emissions,and analyze the factors that influence the decoupling relationship,in order to provide data support for China’s industrial structure and trade structure adjustment and low carbon economic policy formulation.According to the analysis results,China’s export carbon emissions generally show an increasing trend,in addition,the analysis of all perspectives shows that the effect on the decoupling between China’s export trade and its carbon emissions is the export-scale effect.This shows that the continuous growth of China’s export trade is the dominant factor that leads to the increase of export carbon emissions.The effect of carbon emission intensity and export structure on the decoupling state is not a single direction,indicates that China’s current export structure optimization mechanism and the rigid constraint mechanism of carbon emission intensity are not fully functioning and its future potential remains to be tapped.Finally,according to the conclusion of this paper,some policy suggestions are put forward to realize the goal of"decoupling"between China’s carbon emissions and export trade growth and the coordinated development of economy and environment.