Empirical Analysis Of China's Energy Consumption, Economic Growth And The Relationship Between Carbon Dioxide Emissions

With global warming, as well as the Copenhagen conference, the carbon dioxideemissions has become a focus of national attention. As the most important developingcountries, but also the major carbon emitters, how to deal with the relationship of energyconsumption, economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions is particularly important forChina. With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization of China, energy demandand energy consumption growth rate becomes significantly faster. However, China’s energyconsumption structure is relatively simple, Mainly coal with the maximum carbon dioxideemission factor, this is determined by China’s energy endowment. In addition, intensity ofenergy consumption of China continued to decline, but there is still a certain gap withdeveloped countries, and per capita energy consumption is inadequate. Emissions ofcarbon dioxide with the rapid development of China’s economy and the surge in demandfor energy, showed a rapid growth trend. This paper mainly using three methods from threeaspects to analyze the relationship between China’s energy consumption, economic growthand carbon dioxide emissions rom three aspects. First of all, analyze the tatuscharacteristics of China’s energy consumption, economic growth and carbon dioxideemissions, using descriptive statistics research the relationship that may exist between thethree. Secondly, using LMDI model analyze the effects of energy and economic for carbondioxide emissions,and compare their contribution to the value and contribution rates. Then,using the same type of target system, Establish VAR (Vector Auto regression) model, usingthe impulse response function and variance decomposition studied the dynamic contactbetween urbanization, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions intensity and theimpact mechanism between urbanization, energy intensity of carbon dioxide emissions. Itfollows that, improve energy efficiency, the transformation of economic developmentmode, optimizing energy structure is a very important role for controlling carbon emissionsand reduce energy.