Rural financial development and achieving an agricultural carbon emissions peak: an empirical analysis of Henan Province, China

The Carbon Emission Characteristics and Reduction Potential in Developing Areas: Case Study from Anhui Province, China

“…Similar case was reported that carbon emissions of forest ecological products showed a fluctuating upward trend in Zhejiang Province [ 94 ] and Xinjiang Province [ 95 ], whereas it was regarded that urgent measures should be taken to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Shandong Province, a typical province of energy consumption [ 19 ]. However, there are also some cases that reported the characteristics and dynamics of carbon emissions and carbon sinks with emission reduction potential insights in economically developing areas of China [ 40 , 75 , 77 ]. These reports found that there was much reduction potential of carbon emissions with the carbon sink as well as carbon emissions per capita and carbon intensity in Chinese economically undeveloped and developing areas [ 40 , 75 , 77 ].…”

“…However, there are also some cases that reported the characteristics and dynamics of carbon emissions and carbon sinks with emission reduction potential insights in economically developing areas of China [ 40 , 75 , 77 ]. These reports found that there was much reduction potential of carbon emissions with the carbon sink as well as carbon emissions per capita and carbon intensity in Chinese economically undeveloped and developing areas [ 40 , 75 , 77 ]. They also proposed that the government should provide a suitable economic growth and development range for the average gross domestic product growth rate, the proportions of primary industry and secondary industry, energy consumption intensity of secondary industry, and the urbanization [ 40 , 75 , 77 ].…”

“…These reports found that there was much reduction potential of carbon emissions with the carbon sink as well as carbon emissions per capita and carbon intensity in Chinese economically undeveloped and developing areas [ 40 , 75 , 77 ]. They also proposed that the government should provide a suitable economic growth and development range for the average gross domestic product growth rate, the proportions of primary industry and secondary industry, energy consumption intensity of secondary industry, and the urbanization [ 40 , 75 , 77 ]. In particular, there was a similar inverted “U”-shaped industrial influence mechanism of rural financial scale and incorporating rural financial efficiency and agricultural carbon emissions with stringent carbon development scenarios of the environmental Kuznets curve in Henan Province, China [ 40 ].…”

“…Agriculture, as the primary industry, is the second largest source and driver of carbon emissions in the world, and its carbon emissions in agronomy and animal husbandry cannot be ignored [ 16 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ]. In calculating the level of agricultural carbon emissions in Indonesia, scholars had proved that there were an inverted “U”-shaped assumption of the environmental Kuznets curve, carrying out rice cultivation and increasing the ratio of renewable energy use could reduce the impact of carbon emission [ 32 ].When Leitão and Balogh (2020) measured the relationship between Portuguese agriculture and energy consumption, they found that energy consumption played a role in promoting agricultural carbon emissions [ 33 ].…”

“…For example, we might plan to speed up the adjustment of agricultural structure to promote the progress of agricultural technology [ 26 ]. Simultaneously, we might try to explore curtain pathways to promote the agricultural carbon-peaking by means of technology and finance [ 22 , 40 ], or to promote the clean agricultural production and expand the opening of agriculture to the outside world [ 41 , 42 ].…”