The Empirical Analysis Of The Regional Difference Of Carbon Dioxide Emissions In China And The Influencing Factors

The fact that global climate change has drew high attention from all over theworld. The accumulating of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in theatmosphere is the main reason of the earth’s temperature rises, therefore, it isextremely important to reduce carbon dioxide emission. In this paper, we calculatecarbon dioxide emissions in30provinces in our country from1998to2010and buildthe provincial panel database of co2emissions. On this basis, we analyze the impactfactors of China’s eastern, central and western regions’ carbon dioxide emissions byusing expanded STIRPAT model. Static panel model estimation results show thatpopulation, per capita GDP, urbanization level, and elastic coefficient of energyintensity of carbon dioxide emissions are different in different areas. In terms ofelasticity of population, economic growth and energy intensity, the value is positive inthe eastern, central and western regions. Urbanization has a positive effect on carbondioxide in the eastern. On the contrary, it is insignificant on carbon dioxide in centralChina and negative in western areas. Dynamic panel model estimates shows that thecarbon dioxide emissions of the previous period can promote current dioxideemissions. The Kuznets curve shows that the relationship between economic growthand carbon dioxide take on “N” type. Finally, we put forward some suggestionsaccording to the empirical results.