Study On The Relationship Of Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions And Economic Growth In Xinjiang

People discussed the emissions reduction obligations the developing countries shouldundertake in Copenhagen Climate Conference in2009. Chinese government has committed todecrease the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP from2005to2020by40%～45%.Xinjiang as one of the national rich resource western provinces is in a leapfrog stage ofdevelopment, the pace of urbanization and industrialization will increase. So, that Xinjiangreduces carbon emissions and develop low-carbon economy is very important to Chinesecarbon emission reduction target. The12thFive Year Plan of Xinjiang has made it clear that itwill shift economic approach and reform energy using manner.So the article will explore the relationship between energy consumption, carbonemissions and economic growth, analyze the problems faced in the energy saving, and pointedsome useful suggestions. The chapter studies the present situation of energy consumption,carbon emissions and economic growth in Xinjiang from the perspective of the total amountand structure of economic growth, energy consumption and carbon emissions. Basing on theerror correction model analyzes short-term and long-term relations between Xinjiang energyconsumption, carbon emission and economic development. It basing on the impulse responsefunction and variance decomposition studies the dynamic relationship between these three. Toget: there is a positive co-integration relationship in Xinjiang carbon emissions and energyconsumption and economic growth in the long term, the error correction coefficient is-0.78,that is, when short-term fluctuations deviate from the long-run equilibrium, the intensity willbe-0.78recovery from non-equilibrium to equilibrium. Granger test results show that theenergy consumption and economic growth can Granger cause carbon emissions, energyconsumption does not Granger cause economic growth. Impulse response and variancedecomposition shows that the impact of energy consumption and economic growth inXinjiang. These results show that the typical inverted U-shaped curve relationship does notexist in the Xinjiang carbon emissions and economic growth, but showing the N-typerelationship. This shows that the environmental quality of the Xinjiang region have not yetentered the improvement phase, energy consumption and carbon emissions to improve theturning point did not come. This chapter finds that the energy industry is generally higherincluding hidden carbon emissions than others. These departments, however, are precisely thenet export sector in Xinjiang. Therefore, this increases the difficulty of the implementation of energy saving work in Xinjiang.