Estimating the mitigation potential of the Chinese service sector using embodied carbon emissions accounting

Hou, Huimin; Wang, Jiawei; Yuan, Mengnan; Liang, Shuang; Liu, Ting; Wang, Huanzhi; Bai, Haoyu; He, Xu

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2020.106510

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“…Moreover, the composition of energy consumption is more on clean sources (renewables) and less on dirty sources (fossil fuels). Besides, the economy's productive capacity is supported by the service sector, which has been empirically advanced as a moderator of carbon emissions ( Gao et al., 2021 ; Hou et al., 2021 ). Lastly, the engagement of citizens in sustainable development plans is a crucial distinctive factor for Sweden, amidst other countries.…”

Section: Stylized Facts On Principal Variables; Carbon Emissions Stru...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The environmental aspects of renewable energy consumption and structural change in Sweden: A new perspective from wavelet-based granger causality approach

Adebayo

Ibrahim

Agyekum

et al. 2022

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Section: Stylized Facts On Principal Variables; Carbon Emissions Stru...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The environmental aspects of renewable energy consumption and structural change in Sweden: A new perspective from wavelet-based granger causality approach

Adebayo

Ibrahim

Agyekum

et al. 2022

Heliyon

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“…In this process, the carbon emissions of different industry sectors will show different characteristics due to different resource endowment conditions, production factor requirements, technological levels, and development stages. Many fruitful studies have been conducted to analyze carbon emissions in different fields or sectors during urbanization, such as industrial carbon emissions [ 23 , 24 ], agricultural carbon emissions [ 25 , 26 ], and carbon emissions from service industry [ 27 , 28 ]. Along with the rise of urbanization, the development of the construction industry will be accompanied by increasing energy consumption and carbon emissions.…”

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Spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of carbon emissions from civil buildings: Evidence from urban China

Wang

Liu

2022

PLoS ONE

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Carbon emissions from civil buildings refer to the carbon emissions generated during the operation of civil buildings. With the continuous development of the urban economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, this part of carbon emission puts tremendous pressure on China to achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutral. In the context of rapid urbanization, studying the spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of the carbon emissions from civil buildings have strong practical significance for China to achieve the "dual carbon" goal. Based on the emission data from 104 prefecture-level cities in China, we examine the spatiotemporal characteristics of the civil building carbon emissions from the perspectives of temporal evolution trend, spatial distribution and its dynamic evolution, spatial difference and its decomposition, and spatial autocorrelation characteristics. Finally, we reveal the influencing factors of the carbon emissions from civil buildings using static panel data models and spatial dynamic panel data models. The results of the study show that: (1) During the sample period, the carbon emissions from civil buildings have increased year by year. The civil building carbon emissions have become an important source of China’s overall carbon emissions. Realizing energy saving and emission reduction in the operational stage of civil buildings is crucial to realizing China’s "dual carbon" goal. (2) According to the estimated results, there is a significant inverted U-shaped non-linear relationship between urbanization and civil building carbon emissions. Most Chinese cities are located in the upward part of the inverted U-shaped curve at present. Thus, the traditional economic growth model characterized by high energy consumption and high emission during rapid urbanization should be abandoned to reduce the carbon emissions from civil buildings. (3) Technological progress and fixed asset investment can effectively reduce the carbon emissions from civil buildings. At the same time, the level of marketization and social consumption expenditure positively affect the carbon emissions from civil buildings. It is necessary to improve the relevant market mechanisms, policy subsidies, and other means to encourage the application of green energy-saving technologies in civil buildings. Also, it is needed to guide the urban residents’ consumption structure and lifestyle in a low-carbon direction, to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions during the operation of civil buildings.

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“…In recent decade, the relationship between CO2 emissions, energy, and the service sector has become a hot topic. Input-output approach and the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach have been applied frequently for study the CO2 emissions and energy efficiency on service sector ( Gowdy and Miller, 1987 ; Alcántara and Padilla, 2009 ; Butnar and Llop, 2011 ; Fang et al, 2013 ; Lin and Zhang, 2017 ; Brown et al, 2020 ; Hou et al, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2020 ). Some researchers have examined the energy consumption on service sector.…”

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Global Inequality in Service Sector Development: Trend and Convergence

Ma¹,

Shum

Han³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge impact on global service sector. In the pandemic background, to understand the disparity in service sector outputs at the global level is crucial for assessing the effectiveness of development policies in different countries. This study investigate the global service sector and it aims to investigate the transitional dynamics of the output from the service sector by adopting stochastic kernel analyses. Distribution dynamics analyses are carried out for all the countries in the world. The data are then divided into different regional and income groups to evaluate the impacts of geographical location and income on the development of the service sector. The results show that the Global North will continue to make greater strides, while the output capacity in many Global South countries struggles to reach the global average. Moreover, it is shown that countries with higher per capita income will perform better in the development of their service sector than those with low per capita income, thereby highlighting the persistence of global inequality. Finally, this study shows that the Sub-Saharan Africa region and the South Asia region both are very important in the alleviation of global inequality.

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Estimating the mitigation potential of the Chinese service sector using embodied carbon emissions accounting

Cited by 59 publications

References 28 publications

The environmental aspects of renewable energy consumption and structural change in Sweden: A new perspective from wavelet-based granger causality approach

The environmental aspects of renewable energy consumption and structural change in Sweden: A new perspective from wavelet-based granger causality approach

Spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of carbon emissions from civil buildings: Evidence from urban China

Global Inequality in Service Sector Development: Trend and Convergence

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