Path Analysis on the Influence Factors of Construction Carbon Emissions and Policy Implications for Jiangsu in China

Abstract

The historical experience from developed countries shows that carbon emissions, with the process of urbanization, will exceed the construction industry, transport and other sectors of society and eventually occupy the first. So, it not only has practical significance, but has far-reaching strategic significance to transform the high-carbon construction into low-carbon. The paper describes the direct, indirect and general influences of the construction carbon emissions based on the path analysis and the related statistic data of Jiangsu Province from 1998 to 2007. It provides an effective guidance for the budget and control of the low-carbon development path with the detailed analysis on each factor’s influence and mechanism.

Life-cycle CO2 Emissions and Their Driving Factors in Construction Sector in China

“…Zhang et al proposed a three-stage life cycle accounting approach to examine the construction sector in China and found that the construction stage made up over 60% of the total energy consumption of the sector (Zhang and Wang, 2016a). Previous investigations of the factors influencing carbon emissions have considered carbon intensity (Lu et al, 2016;Du et al, 2017), energy intensity (Lin and Liu, 2015), and energy efficiency (Liu and Lin, 2017), which are direct factors that are specific to each individual industry, whereas the external socioeconomic environment has rarely been discussed (Tang et al, 2012). To summarize, while many examinations of specific buildings and materials have used the LCA approach, much less attention has been given to larger scale (i.e., regional or national) analyses.…”