A comprehensive analysis of China's regional energy saving and emission reduction efficiency: From production and treatment perspectives

Wu, Jie; Li, Lin; Sun, Jiasen; Ji, Xiang

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.05.005

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“…In the context of pursuing climate policy targets, China has made a great effort to mitigate its rising trend of CO 2 emissions [4]. There are two main types of emissions reduction policies based on market mechanisms: carbon tax policy and Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) [5].…”

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Marginal Abatement Cost of CO2 in China Based on Directional Distance Function: An Industry Perspective

Xiao

Niu

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Industrial sectors account for around 70% of the total energy-related CO 2 emissions in China. It is of great importance to measure the potential for CO 2 emissions reduction and calculate the carbon price in industrial sectors covered in the Emissions Trading Scheme and carbon tax. This paper employs the directional distance function to calculate the marginal abatement costs of CO 2 emissions during 2005-2011 and makes a comparative analysis between our study and the relevant literature. Our empirical results show that the marginal abatement costs vary greatly from industry to industry: high marginal abatement costs occur in industries with low carbon intensity, and vice versa. In the application of the marginal abatement cost, the abatement distribution scheme with minimum cost is established under different abatement targets. The conclusions of abatement distribution scheme indicate that those heavy industries with low MACs and high carbon intensity should take more responsibility for emissions reduction and vice versa. Finally, the policy implications for marginal abatement cost are provided.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marginal Abatement Cost of CO2 in China Based on Directional Distance Function: An Industry Perspective

Xiao

Niu

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…In Wu et al (2017) [19], not only the production waste is treated as intermediate undesired output, but also the recyclable material treated by waste disposal sub-system can then be put into the pre-production sub-system, in order to save the input of the production sub-system. Further, Bian et al (2015) [20] and Wu et al (2015b) [21] introduced the two-stage model to evaluate the efficiency of the provincial production sub-system and emission reduction sub-system. Clearly, the two-stage DEA models mentioned above open the "black box" by dividing the whole system into two sub-systems, which will be helpful for identifying the real reason for inefficiency or ineffectiveness of the whole system.…”

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“…In Models (2)- (4) [21], the pollution treatment efficiency in our model is still relatively lower. What is more, these two trends are just the opposite to each other, meaning that the pollution treatment efficiency became worse.…”

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Does the Central Government’s Environmental Policy Work? Evidence from the Provincial-Level Environment Efficiency in China

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This paper aims at checking the effectiveness of environmental policy pushed by the Central Government at provincial level since China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). For this purpose, the industrial system of each province is divided into industrial production sub-system and pollution treatment sub-system, and a novel slack-based measure data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) model with non-cooperative game is proposed to evaluate the environment efficiency of both industrial production sub-system and pollutant treatment sub-system. The results show that the proposed model can describe the environmental efficiency more precisely than the traditional DEA models. During 2003-2012, the efficiencies of industrial production sub-system and pollution treatment sub-system at the provincial level are both relatively low. Specifically, the efficiency of industrial production is not only lower than pollution treatment efficiency, but is falling generally, especially in the Eastern area. However, in the Central and Western area, the efficiency of industrial production remains relatively stable, and pollution treatment efficiency is rising steadily. The technology gap between the Central/Western area and the Eastern area is narrowing, particularly concerning pollution treatment technology. We thus conclude that though the Central Government's environmental policies fail to solve the inner contradiction between economic and environmental systems, and they indirectly contribute to the expansion of pollutant treatment technology among the Eastern, Central, and Western areas, which is conducive to the coordinated development among different areas.

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“…Otherwise, it is greater than 0. Based on the analysis in Section 3.1, we know that 0 k = when 1 . Namely, the system becomes more and more complex.…”

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“…They have obtained many valuable results. Wu et al [1] studied energy efficiency, environmental efficiency and the integration of energy and environmental measures. They obtained some valuable results.…”

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Entropy and Stability Analysis of Delayed Energy Supply–Demand Model

Wang

et al. 2016

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Abstract:In this paper, a four-dimensional model of energy supply-demand with two-delay is built. The interactions among energy demand of east China, energy supply of west China and the utilization of renewable energy in east China are delayed in this model. We discuss stability of the system affected by parameters and the existence of Hopf bifurcation at the equilibrium point from two aspects: single delay and two-delay. The stability and complexity of the system are demonstrated through bifurcation diagram, Poincare section plot, entropy diagram, etc. in numerical simulation. The simulation results show that the parameters beyond the stable region will cause the system to be unstable and increase the complexity of the system. At this point, because of energy supply-demand system fluctuations, it is difficult to formulate energy policies. Finally, the bifurcation control is realized successfully by the method of delayed feedback control. The results of bifurcation control simulation indicate that the system can return to stable state by adjusting the control parameter. In addition, we find that the bigger the value of the control parameter, the better the effect of the bifurcation control. The results of this paper can provide help for maintaining the stability of the system, which will be conducive to energy scheduling.

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A comprehensive analysis of China's regional energy saving and emission reduction efficiency: From production and treatment perspectives

Cited by 135 publications

References 34 publications

Marginal Abatement Cost of CO2 in China Based on Directional Distance Function: An Industry Perspective

Marginal Abatement Cost of CO2 in China Based on Directional Distance Function: An Industry Perspective

Does the Central Government’s Environmental Policy Work? Evidence from the Provincial-Level Environment Efficiency in China

Entropy and Stability Analysis of Delayed Energy Supply–Demand Model

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