Research On The Effect Of Residents’ Low Carbon Consumption Concept On Residential Carbon Emissions

According to the Global Climate Report 2020 released by the World Meteorological Group,China has become the largest carbon emission country in the world.At the same time,global warming,melting glaciers,forest fires and other climate problems occur frequently.The proposed "double carbon" goal also makes carbon emission reduction put on the agenda as a hard target.In this context,carbon emissions from domestic consumption have increased rapidly,accounting for 53% of the total carbon emissions in 2023.Therefore,consumption has become an breakthrough point for carbon emission reduction.This paper firstly analyzed the classical environmental behavior theory through literature review,and summarized the mechanism model of the impact of residents’ lowcarbon consumption concept on residents’ consumption carbon emissions.This model established the influence path between residents’ low-carbon consumption concept,lowcarbon consumption behavior and residents’ consumption carbon emissions.It establishes an index system of residents’ low-carbon consumption concept from three aspects: low carbon values,low carbon beliefs and low carbon norm constraints.Then,To solve this problem of the regional limitation、result bias and data continuity in the previous studies on residents’ low-carbon consumption concept,it innovatively introduces Internet search data for research.Next,this paper uses the emission coefficient method and CLA method to calculate the direct and indirect carbon emissions of residents’ consumption in 30 provinces of China from 2011 to 2020,and analyze their spatiotemporal evolution patterns.Finally,a panel model was established to analyze the impact of residents’ low-carbon consumption concept on their carbon emissions,and the following conclusions were drawn:(1)The overall trend of residents’ low-carbon consumption concept is fluctuating and rising.Before 2016,the index of residents’ low-carbon consumption concept was relatively stable and even occasionally decreased.However,after 2016,there has been a rapid growth trend,with the growth rate in the West>Central>East.(2)From the perspective of spatial distribution,the development level of residents’ low-carbon consumption concept is ranked as East > Central >West.Provinces with high low-carbon consumption concept are mainly concentrated in southeast coastal areas and gradually spread to the inland,while provinces with moderate low-carbon consumption concept are distributed in bulk,and provinces with low consumption concept are concentrated in the north.(3)The carbon emissions from residents’ consumption are increasing year by year,The overall spatial distribution pattern of consumption carbon emissions is high in southeast and low in northwest.(4)The concept of low-carbon consumption among residents,as well as the three primary indicators including low-carbon values,beliefs,and regulatory constraints,all have a negative effect on carbon emissions,and the impact effects can be compared to low-carbon beliefs>low-carbon values>low-carbon regulatory constraints.Moreover,this negative utility has the characteristics of diminishing marginal utility and time lag.(5)The carbon emission of household consumption is dynamic,and the carbon emission of one period lag will have a positive effect on the carbon emission of the current period.