TITLE:
Research on Carbon Emission of Residents’ Consumption—Based on the City of Guangzhou
AUTHORS:
Jingshu Zou
KEYWORDS:
Residents Indirect Energy Consumption Carbon Emissions, Guangzhou City, LMDI
JOURNAL NAME:
Low Carbon Economy,
Vol.8 No.1,
March
31,
2017
ABSTRACT: Carbon dioxide can cause greenhouse effects and that
have a bad effect on the lives of residents. With the continuous improvement of
economic development level, the consumption structure of residents is also
changing, and then the carbon dioxide emission produced by residents is also
changing. Therefore, this paper used LMDI decomposition method to calculate and
analyze the indirect energy consumption of Guangzhou residents carbon
emissions, which creatively used the LMDI method in the study of urban
residents on the carbon emissions. At the same time, the research of this paper
is helpful to strengthen the residents’ awareness of carbon emission reduction.
This paper first explored the factors that affect the indirect energy carbon
emissions of residents, then defined the research frame of residents’ indirect
energy carbon emission, and therefore accounted for the indirect energy
consumption of residents. According to the demographic characteristics of the
population of Guangzhou, the emission from residents’ carbon consumption is
further divided into urban consumer carbon emissions and rural consumer carbon
emissions. The research results are as follows: The main factor that stimulates
the carbon dioxide emission of Guangzhou’s residential indirect energy
consumption is per capita income; the main factor that suppresses the emission
is the intensity of energy consumption Population size, per capita income, and
the resident consumption structure have a stimulating effect on the emissions
of carbon dioxide from Guangzhou’s residential indirect energy consumption of
urban and rural residents. The intensity of energy consumption and the emission
intensity of carbon dioxide have a suppressing effect on the emissions of
carbon dioxide from Guangzhou’s residential indirect energy consumption of
urban and rural residents. Urban and rural population structure has a stimulating
effect on the emissions of carbon dioxide from Guangzhou’s residential indirect
energy consumption of urban residents, but has a suppressing effect on rural
residents.