Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 106, Issue -, Pages 65-71Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.01.036
Keywords
CO2 emissions; STIRPAT model; Ridge regression; Elastic coefficients; Guangdong Province
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71020107026, 71201010, 71273027]
- Ministry of Education of China [11YJC630304]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong [S2012010009991, S2011010001591]
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To find the key impact factors of CO2 emissions to realize the carbon intensity target, this paper examined the impact factors of population, economic level, technology level, urbanization level, industrialization level, service level, energy consumption structure and foreign trade degree on the energy-related CO2 emissions in Guangdong Province, China from 1980 to 2010 using an extended STIRPAT model. We employed ridge regression to fit the extended STIRPAT model. Empirical results indicate that factors such as population, urbanization level, GDP per capita, industrialization level and service level, can cause an increase in CO2 emissions. However, technology level, energy consumption structure and foreign trade degree can lead to a decrease in CO2 emissions. The estimated elastic coefficients suggest that population is the most important impact factor of CO2 emissions. Industrialization level, urbanization level, energy consumption structure, service level and GDP per capita are also significant impact factors, but the other factors such as technology level and foreign trade degree are less important impact factors. Some policy recommendations are also given on how to mitigate the growth of CO2 emissions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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