Study On Influencing Factors Of Carbon Emissions In Planting Industry In Fujian Province

Global climate change caused by carbon emissions has brought significant negative impacts on the survival and sustainable development of human society, arousing widespread concern in society. Research on agricultural carbon emissions indicates that the agricultural sector is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the implementation of reducing carbon emissions to combat climate warming is an important move. In 2009, China has committed publicly that until 2020 the carbon emissions per unit of GDP decreased by 40% to 45% compared to 2005. In that case, all sectors and industries, including agricultural sector must make every efforts for energy-saving and carbon emissions reduction.As what is affected by human intervention most in agricultural production is planting industry, so carbon emissions of planting industry is the major component of agricultural carbon emissions. And planting industry is a weak industry, extreme climate changes can easily lead to the reduction of output, as well as the insufficiency of grains, triggering a series of economic, ecological and social problems. Therefore, it is very important to accurately grasp the current situations and the driving mechanism of its influencing factors of planting industry carbon emissions. Based on analyzing the carbon emissions status in planting industry of Fujian province from 1990 to 2014, this paper conducts an empirical study on the direction and degree of the influence of four factors including productivity, agricultural industrial structure, the level of agricultural economic development, and the scale of labor force on the planting carbon emissions by constructing a decomposition model of carbon emissions, and analysis on the decoupling state of carbon emissions by constructing a decomposition model of Tapio decoupling elasticity. At last, this paper proposes some appropriate policy recommendations based on the empirical results, hoping efforts above can provide a useful reference to reduce carbon emissions of planting industry in Fujian and achieve a strong decoupling between planting carbon emissions and agricultural economic development.