Emissions trading and abatement cost savings: An estimation of China's thermal power industry

Wang, Ke; Zhang, Xian; Yu, Xueying; Wei, Yi‐Ming; Wang, Bin

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.07.051

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“…Thus, it is urgent to improve energy efficiency in high energy-consumption sectors. These projections are also supported by Wang et al [82]. It shows that due to the high dependency of industrial energy consumption on coal, the increase in the proportion of secondary industry will cause an increase in CO 2 emissions.…”

Section: Energy-related Issuesmentioning

confidence: 56%

“…From the perspectives of industries, Wang et al [82] infer that increases in carbon emissions in some regions are driven by the development of the rural economy, especially the rise of tourism and its related industries. By contrast, according to the view of Mi et al [28], China's economic growth has been based mostly on the developments of heavy industry and manufacturing, whose energy intensity is 14 times greater than that of the tertiary industrial activities.…”

Section: Economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the overall social income level is to be improved and the social and public welfare should be enriched to reduce the burden of public consumption and release the huge consumption potential. These objectives can be achieved by means of reducing economic dependence on fixed asset investment and low-end exports, thereby promoting domestic consumption, and maintaining sustainable economic growth [62,82,92,116].…”

Section: Economic Development Model and Residents' Consumption Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The city population density, the size of built-up area and the density of urban roads should also be controlled according to a rational plan [41,90,107]. Wang et al [82] suggest developing a highly energy efficient transport mode and promoting China's transport energy savings during urbanization process. According to Lin and Benjamin [110] the integration of energy intensity and carbon intensity reductions can dramatically reduce carbon emissions in the transportation industry, and carbon intensity has a more profound impact in the long run.…”

Section: Economic Development Model and Residents' Consumption Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Generally, many scholars [62,68,82,89,91,103] conclude that a variety of strategies can be used to mitigate CO 2 emissions and CO 2 emission intensity effectively. These measures include guiding enterprises to increase the diversity of energy mix, improving energy utilization technology, expanding the use of new energy, increasing the proportion of clean energy use, and increasing the share of hydropower and nuclear power.…”

Section: Optimization Of Energy Usage To Form An Excellent Ecologicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The green total factor productivity (GTFP) has become an important index of balancing the energy consumptions, economic development, and environmental protections. This study extends the slacks-based directional distance function (SDDF) of Fare and Grosskopf into the framework of the Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index to estimate the slack-based GTFP.This SDDF can allow decision-making units to explore the optimal direction and measure a more precise productivity index. For the empirical study, we employ the new model to measure the slack-based GTFP for Chinese 30 provinces over the period of 2005-2017. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of the regional differences on the GTFP and the convergence of the Chinese GTFP with β-converge and σ-convergence. Our results show that there is a rapid improvement in the GTFP in China, which is attributed to the technical change. However, there exists a significant difference in GTFP for three regions of China. The eastern region performs significantly better than the others. Finally, we find there is a strong convergence in China, and the eastern region has a faster convergence than the other regions.

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Emissions trading and abatement cost savings: An estimation of China's thermal power industry

Cited by 39 publications

References 27 publications

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