Abstract
Studying the characteristics, trends, and evolution of carbon emissions in agricultural related sectors is of great significance for rational formulation of carbon emission reduction policies. However, as an important carbon emission reduction policy, carbon tax has been controversial over whether or not it should be levied on China. Based on this consideration, this paper takes China’s agricultural related sectors as an example and analyzes the degree of carbon tax on macro-environment, macroeconomy, and agricultural sectors during the period 2020–2050 by constructing a 3EAD-CGE (economy-energy-environmental-agricultural-dynamics Computable General Equilibrium) model. The results show that: (1) carbon tax has a time effect, specifically, the short-term effect is better than the long-term. (2) If the incremental rate of carbon tax is carried out alone, it will exert a great influence on the macroeconomy as well as on most of the agricultural related sectors. (3) If a carbon tax is introduced at the same time as indirect taxes are cut (proportionally), the policy will exert a negative impact on agriculture-related sectors that are subsidized. However, the policy will have a positive impact on those nonsubsidized sectors. Finally, based on the results, we put forward some suggestions that are more suitable for the introduction of a carbon tax in China’s agricultural-related sectors.
Highlights
At present, China’s economy has further developed
In order to simulate the impact of the carbon tax on macroeconomy and different agricultural-related sectors, an economy-energy-environmental-agricultural-dynamics CGE model (3EAD-CGE) is constructed in this article to comprehensively analyze the impact of the carbon tax on the production processes of Chinese agriculture-related sectors
In September 2007, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Medium and Long-term Plan of Renewable Energy Source Development to raise the weight of renewable energy to 10%, as a proportion of total primary energy consumption in 2010, and further to 15% in 2020, which is expected to contribute greatly to the objectives of saving about 5–6 billion tons of CO2 emissions by 2020 [40]
Summary
There is no denying that economic development has brought various negative consequences, such as an energy crisis (from supply) and environmental pollution problems, which are inseparable from the current extensive economic development [1]. Because the energy and environmental problems are without borders, the extensive. Energies 2018, 11, 2296 mode of economic development has brought huge challenges for sustainable global development, especially the global climate issue. More and more countries have realized that economic development accompanied by CO2 emissions has caused a huge challenge to the biosphere [2]. In order to deal with the challenges of global climate change, more and more countries are trying to create their own low carbon development strategies to minimize emissions of CO2 at the national level [3]
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