Technology Advance and Carbon-Dioxide Emission in China—Evidence from the Empirical Study on Rebound Effect
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| Title | Technology Advance and Carbon-Dioxide Emission in China—Evidence from the Empirical Study on Rebound Effect
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| Author | Lin Boqiang and Yang Lish |
| Organization | Xiamen University |
| Email | frogshasha@foxmail.com；bqlin@xmu.edu.cn |
| Key Words | technology advance, carbon-dioxide emission, rebound effect, SML index, LMDI index |
| Abstract | It has become an international consensus on carbon dioxide mitigation under the serious circumstance of the worsening greenhouse effect. At present, technology advance is the greatest contributor to the carbon dioxide mitigation. However, the real effect of technology advance on mitigation is worth further studying due to the existence of rebound effect. A key issue is how to quantify the relationship between technology advance and carbon dioxide emission accurately. This paper figures out a comprehensive and modified framework involving around the rebound effect of carbon emission from the macroeconomic perspective. Using this framework, this paper quantitatively evaluates the relationship between technical change and carbon emission based on the data of 30 provinces in China. It is founded that: (1) the rebound effect is almost 10%~60% in Chinese provinces; (2) the rebound effect of carbon emission differs among the regions in China; (3) energy and environment issues should be solved step by step regionally. |
| Serial Number | WP736 |
| Time | 2014-10-21 |
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