The Study On Carbon Emission Levels And Its Influencing Factors Of The Industry In Hubei Province

A “Low carbon economy” is a kind of social economic model which ischaracterized by low energy consumption, low pollution and low emission. It is toreduce the greenhouse gas emissions so as to establish an economic developmentsystem which is based on low energy consumption and low pollution. The focus oflow carbon development is to make industry move toward a low-carbon emission path.Therefore, this dissertation takes the current carbon emission levels of industry inHubei Province as key point and makes a systematic analysis of the carbon emissionlevels of industry and its influencing factors. The purpose of the research is to makean economic analysis and policy for the low emission, low energy consumption, lowpollution and high production of our industry in the future.The content centers on following several aspects: First, it introduces the domesticand foreign background, research as well as the national and foreign researchsituations. Second, it collects some related theories. Third, this dissertation attempts,according to the theory of industrial relationship theory and carbon emission theory,to analyze the current carbon emission levels of industry in Hubei Province and hasanalyzed the economic influences of Hubei’s industrial development. Forth, it makesan empirical analysis, through both a three factor and five factor model of theinfluencing factors of carbon emission levels of industry in Hubei Province. Fifth,referring to the experiences in energy conservation and pollution reduction ofdomestic and foreign industry, it gains some enlighten. Sixth, it has constructed thatcarbon-cutting strategy and measures in future industry in Hubei Province undercircumstance of low carbon economy.This dissertation follows the order of the document research---theoreticalresearch---empirical research---reference to domestic and foreign experiences---thewriting logic of policies and suggestions, as discussed below:Firstly, this dissertation introduces the research background, realistic andacademic significance, which discusses and evaluates the carbon emission levels of industry as well as the current situations of domestic and foreign related research. Onthis basis it puts forward the directions, methods and measures of future industry inHubei Province under the circumstance of a low carbon economy.This dissertation introduces and describes these three main theories: the theory ofindustrial related economic (industry relevance theory and industry structure theory),low carbon economy (carbon footprint theory, decoupling theory and the rollercoaster theory) as well as carbon emissions and factor decomposition (card andformula, index decomposition theory and factor decomposition theory), it also hasmakes theoretical research and reviews the modern industry’s transformation to thedirection of low carbon deeply and systematically.For the case study, it firstly analyzes the current carbon emissions levels ofindustry in Hubei Province. It makes rearrangement and classification to the energyinput-output table by establishing new energy input-output table and makes a currentanalysis of carbon emission levels of industry in Hubei Province by doing research inthe amount of carbon emission in each industry, carbon emission intensity, carbonproductivity, along with the relationship between industry added value and carbonemissions.Secondly, it estimates the influence coefficient in each industry, sensitivitycoefficient and industry marginal value of carbon emissions, by revising directconsumption coefficient and complete consumption coefficient of energy. Bycomparing the two coefficients it aims at analyzing the mutual influences of otherindustries in Hubei Province as well as the pushing and pulling effects on theeconomy of Hubei. By doing this, it tries to find out the reason of the currentproblems in the economy of Hubei, like the unreasonable industry structure, highcarbon emissions and intensive energy consumption and analyses every indexsynthetically to find out the leading industries which are most adapted to Hubei.In allusion to the current situations, this dissertation uses LMDI factordecomposition method to make research to the influencing factors of energyconsumption and carbon emissions level of industry in Hubei. It makes use of threefactor mode, namely economic scale, economic structure and energy utilization, to analyze the influencing factors of energy consumption. The result shows that the mainreason of the increasing energy consumption is the increasing economic structure,while the main reason of the reducing energy consumption is the increasing economicstructure; however, the impact of the improvement of the economic structure onenergy consumption is not big. The analysis of the influencing factors of carbonemissions in industry of Hubei Province is based on five factor mode, besides thethree factors mentioned above, the analysis also includes energy structure and carbonemission factor, the analysis also shows that the main reason of the increasing carbonemissions is the increasing economic scale, while the promotion of the energyefficiency and the improvement of energy structure is helpful to reducing theemissions of carbon dioxide, the impact of energy structure on emission reduction ofcarbon dioxide is not big.In the last part of the policy, this dissertation, from the prospective of bothenterprise and government, discusses the experiences and modes of the emissionreduction of foreign industry through four management modes of developed country,namely joint administration, market governance, corporate governance and nationalgovernance. Then, it discusses the methods of emission reduction of industry insome developed provinces in china (like shanghai, jiangsu, jiangxi). This dissertationconcludes that a good management system can enhance the mutual cooperationbetween governments, industry and corporate, it also can change the production andconsumption modes and increase the competitiveness of corporate as well as industry.At the same time, it predicts the developing tendency of Hubei industry byanalyzing the current problems industrial structure of Hubei Province as wementioned above. Compared to the reduction target of carbon emissions in12thFiveYear Plan, it makes effective strategies and measures to the future industry in HubeiProvince under the circumstance of low carbon economy.