Analysis on Influence Factors of CO2 Emission in Hebei

Abstract

China has become the world’s largest carbon emitter in the world, while Hebei province, dominated by heavy industry, contributed a mass of carbon emissions for the whole country. It was necessary for Hebei to adjust its industrial and energy structure to reduce carbon emissions. This paper analysed the total energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Hebei from 2000 to 2015, and utilized the Logarithmic Mean Di index Method to decompose CO2 emissions emitted by energy consumption. Six factors were decomposed from the total emissions and the Lagrange descriptions as well as the Eulerian description were both employed to analyse these factors trajectory of change. The results discovered that the CO2 emissions by energy consumption in Hebei were mainly stimulated by economic scale expansion, especially the production growth of secondary industry. While the energy intensity become the major restraint for causing CO2 emissions declining. The impacts of other factors were not very remarkable. Finally, some macroscopic advices were offered to control carbon emissions in Hebei.