Evaluating the Coordination of Industrial-Economic Development Based on Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions in Henan Province, China.

Jianjian He,Pengyan Zhang

doi:10.3390/ijerph15091815

Jianjian He, Pengyan Zhang

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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15091815

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Abstract

The mechanism of interaction between economic development, industrial structure and anthropogenic carbon emissions has become one of the focuses of climate change research. In this investigation, Henan Province was studied as an example, wherein the calculation model of carbon emissions in the primary, secondary and tertiary economic sectors was built using the ArcGIS 10.1 software. The spatiotemporal difference of carbon emissions between 2006 and 2015 from the three sectors was studied. The relation between economic development and environmental protection is discussed, based on the construction of a coordination degree model. Conclusions drawn from this analysis are: (1) In 2015, China’s total carbon emissions reached 10,291.93 × 107 t and Henan’s carbon emissions accounted for 1.96% of China’s total carbon emissions. The total carbon emissions in Henan Province increased more than 25.00% between 2006 and 2015. (2) Carbon emissions from different economic sectors demonstrated varied patterns. The primary sector presented a gradual decreasing trend in carbon emission, while the secondary sector showed a fluctuating pattern and the tertiary sector had an inclining trend in carbon emission. (3) There are also disparities in the spatial distribution of carbon emissions from different economic sectors. The primary and tertiary sectors had higher emissions in the southeast and lower emissions in the northwest regions, while the secondary sector showed higher emissions in the northwest and lower emissions in the southeast Between cities at different prefecture levels, differences do not only lie on the quantity of carbon emissions from the three sectors of economy but also a larger variation with regards to the change in quantity of carbon emissions. (4) The coordination degree of economic development was low among different prefecture-level cities. The economic and environmental development appeared coordinated among cities at the same prefecture level; however, coordination degrees among different prefecture-level cities varies significantly.

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Since the issuance of the Third Climate Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001, globe warming has become an important international political issue [1,2,3]
On the basis of selecting the energy consumption as the calculation method of carbon emission, the selection of carbon emission factors makes the total amount of regional carbon emissions greatly different, which is related to the regional energy nature [7,75]
Taking the calculation of the total carbon consumption of energy consumption in Henan Province in 2015 as an example, the total carbon emission estimated by the IPCC carbon emission coefficient is

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Since the issuance of the Third Climate Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001, globe warming has become an important international political issue [1,2,3]. An increase in human industrial activity is likely to be the main cause of global climate change [4,5,6]. The global environmental problem caused by carbon emissions is concerning for sustainable development [7]. The development of a low-carbon economy to address this climate change has become an important task for all countries in the world [8,9,10]. Carbon emissions in a country or a region are mainly decided by four factors: population, Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Public Health 2018, 15, 1815; doi:10.3390/ijerph15091815 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph

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