Interprovincial Carbon Emission Comparison Analysis In China

With the method provided by IPCC (2006), this article estimated andanalyzed the carbon dioxide emission of Jiangsu, Shanxi, Inner Mongoliaand their economic sectors. Empirical results showed that carbon dioxideemissions of above three provinces mentioned were in “stagnancy” between1997and2001, and began to increase rapidly from2002. Based on theoriginal input-output data of1997,2002and2007, this article preparedoutput-input tables with comparable price (price index of2002treated as100%) of Jiangsu, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. By combining input-outputmodel and SDA model, an analysis on the driving forces of above threeprovinces’ carbon emission intensity was conducted. Below findings wereindicated: the effect of carbon emission factors was not significant for allthree provinces; energy consumption structure was one of the key reasonsdriving up the carbon dioxide emission intensity of Inner Mongolia while ithad little effect on Jiangsu and Shanxi; energy consumption intensity wasthe most important reason causing the drop of all three provinces’ carbondioxide emission intensity; the effect of production technology shifted overtime for all three provinces; final consumption production structure drovedown the carbon dioxide emission intensity of Shanxi and Inner Mongoliawhile final consumption distribution structure acted to drive up the carbondioxide emission of all three provinces mentioned.