Increased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China

Abstract Designing inter-regional and inter-provincial responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate change mitigation requires the knowledge of carbon distributions. This study is the first to use a two-sector (i.e., productive and household sectors) inequality decomposition approach to examine the...

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Autores principales:	Jun Yang, Yun Hao, Chao Feng
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d6ff8bf84f29499893cf45e0dd38bd892021-12-02T16:55:24ZIncreased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China10.1038/s41598-021-88736-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/d6ff8bf84f29499893cf45e0dd38bd892021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88736-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Designing inter-regional and inter-provincial responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate change mitigation requires the knowledge of carbon distributions. This study is the first to use a two-sector (i.e., productive and household sectors) inequality decomposition approach to examine the regional, provincial, and national inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions (CPC) in China, as well as their determinants. We show that the CPC inequality index in China increased from 1.1364 in 2000 to 2.3688 in 2017, with the productive sector accounting for 91.42% of this expansion and households responsible for the rest. The production-side per capita output level, energy efficiency, energy structure, and industrial structure explain 69.01%, 12.81%, 5.57%, and 4.03% of these inequalities, respectively. Further, the household per capita energy consumption and energy structure explain only 8.12% and 0.46%, respectively. Therefore, future responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate mitigation need to be formulated taking mainly the productive sector into account.Jun YangYun HaoChao FengNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
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description	Abstract Designing inter-regional and inter-provincial responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate change mitigation requires the knowledge of carbon distributions. This study is the first to use a two-sector (i.e., productive and household sectors) inequality decomposition approach to examine the regional, provincial, and national inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions (CPC) in China, as well as their determinants. We show that the CPC inequality index in China increased from 1.1364 in 2000 to 2.3688 in 2017, with the productive sector accounting for 91.42% of this expansion and households responsible for the rest. The production-side per capita output level, energy efficiency, energy structure, and industrial structure explain 69.01%, 12.81%, 5.57%, and 4.03% of these inequalities, respectively. Further, the household per capita energy consumption and energy structure explain only 8.12% and 0.46%, respectively. Therefore, future responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate mitigation need to be formulated taking mainly the productive sector into account.
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title	Increased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China
title_short	Increased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China
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Increased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China

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