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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 284, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124683
Keywords
China's power sector; Carbon emission quota allocation; Sustainability principle; ZSG-DEA
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- Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Research Fund Plan [15YJA790091]
- Major Program of Social Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission [2016JWZD04]
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This study investigates the allocation of carbon emission allowances for the power sector in China, applying new principles of equality, efficiency, and sustainability. Through empirical analysis, the study reveals the distribution of emission quotas for each province in 2030 compared to 2017.
The power sector accounted for almost 40% of China's carbon emissions in 2017 and is the first industry that is included in the national carbon emission trading system, so the current paper carries out a study on allocating carbon emission allowances for the power sector. Different from previous studies, this article assigns carbon emission allowances to 30 provinces according to the principles of equality, efficiency, and sustainability rather than just using the principles of equality and efficiency. We first apply the entropy method to initially distribute emission allowances to 30 provinces. Then, a zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis (ZSG-DEA) model is used to test the efficiency of quota allocation and redistribute the carbon quotas across 30 provinces continuously until the quotas are optimally distributed. The results show that in 2030, Guangxi, Hainan and Shandong have the most emission quotas, while Heilongjiang, Jilin and Qinghai have the least emission quotas. By comparing the quota share of each province in 2017 with 2030, it is found that Hainan, Guangxi and Qinghai located in western China have small emission reduction challenges, while there are great difficulties for provinces Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shandong situated in the central and eastern China to cut down the emissions. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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