Influence Mechanism of County Scale and Structure on the Household Carbon Emissions and its Planning Strategies

Abstract

In order to achieve China’s national contribution goal of 60% to 65% reduction in CO2 intensity per unit of GDP from 2005-2030 at the climate conference in Paris, China needs to make more efforts in low carbon development. The county is an important level for China’s urban-rural carbon and oxygen planning, and it still has a large potential for carbon emission reduction. This study mainly explores the influence mechanism of county scale and structure on household carbon emissions. First of all, I build a county scale and structural factor index system, and analyse the impact mechanism on this basis. Secondly, I select 10% of the county-level administrative units, and empirically analyse the relationship between factor indicators and the household carbon emissions in terms of population, economy and land use. Finally, based on the results of the empirical analysis, the impact mechanism is re-discussed, and the corresponding county planning strategy is proposed accordingly. The results of this study and policy recommendations have guiding significance for promoting institutional arrangements for low-carbon development in counties.