Low-carbon Industry Development Research Articles

Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from China's cities: Case study of Suzhou

Knowledge of the factors driving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cities is crucial to mitigating China's anthropogenic emissions. In this paper, the main drivers increasing GHG emissions from the Chinese city of Suzhou between 2005 and 2010 were identified and quantitatively analyzed using the Kaya identity and the log-mean Divisia index method. We found that economy and population were the major drivers of GHG emissions in Suzhou, having contributed 162.20% and 109.04%, respectively, to the increase in emissions. A decline in carbon intensity, which was caused by the declining energy intensity and an adjustment to the mixture of power and industrial structures, was the major determinant and accounted for a reduction of 171.24% in GHG emissions. Slowing and maintaining healthy growth rates of economy and population could be the primary and most effective means if Suzhou tries to curb the total emissions over the short term. It may be more realistic for Suzhou to control emissions by optimizing the economic structure for low-carbon industrial development because of the city's relative high energy requirements and low potential to mitigate GHGs by adjusting the energy mixture.

Research of Optimization Framework for China's Low-Carbon Technology Development Based on 3E Model: A Case Study of Electricity Industry

Energy security and climate change are the two major challenges facing human society, its a hot topic that how to realize comprehensive balance and coordinated development among Energy-Economy-Environment. Low-carbon technology is the key to the development of low-carbon economy, and rational planning of the development of low-carbon technology roadmap has the role of guiding low-carbon industry development. This study aims at the lowest cost on carbon emission reduction technology under the constraints of carbon emission reduction targets in all stages; establishes the framework of low-carbon technology development to make portfolio optimization based on MARKAL model; and then take electricity industry for example, and conduct Scenario Design on low-carbon technology in electricity industry by stage in order to define the best low-carbon technology roadmap of electricity industry over the next 40 years. On that basis, propose the matching policy recommendations to ensure the development of low-carbon technology roadmap. The proposed optimization framework of low-carbon technology roadmap can provide technical methods for the development of low-carbon technologies and establishment of related policies in other industries.

Based on the McKinsey Matrix of Tianjin Industrial Low Carbon Development Research

Promotion of low carbon industry development, reduction of industrial carbon emissions intensity and construction of low carbon characterized industry system are the most important to achieve low carbon development. Based on the research situation of industrial energy consumption and carbon emissions in Tianjin, this paper selects the priority to the development and optimization of the development of key industries through McKinsey Matrix. Combined with industry development of present situation, in view of low carbon development of industries of priority development and industries of optimized development, suggestions for industrial low carbon development are put forward.

Study on Effect of Electric Vehicle Industry to Energy and Environment

With the deterioration of the environment and energy crisis is becoming more and more serious, the development of low carbon industry has risen to national strategies. In the energy utilization and environmental effect, electric vehicle to the fuel vehicle has the advantages of energy saving and emission reduction prominent; the whole life cycle analysis, the electric vehicle complete life cycle into electric energy transmission cycle and vehicle life cycle of two parts; electric vehicle power battery as storage unit, strengthen the relationship between electric vehicle, new energy and smart grid among the three, promotes the development and application of clean energy, speed up the construction of smart grid, realize the real energy-saving and emission-reduction.

A Technological Innovation Strategy Study on the Low Carbon Industry Development of the Shandong Province

In order to deal with climate warming and the global energy crisis, the low carbon industry is rising as a new form of business. It’s the inevitable trend of industry transformation towards a low carbon economy, and it’s at the core of energy saving and emissions reduction in the short term. Using Shandong Province as the object of study, this article analyzes the present situation and the difficulties in developing a low carbon industry. Based upon these findings, it proposes four strategies with which technical innovation can be used to push the development of the Shandong Province towards a low carbon economy. It also supplies numerous suggestions for said development, such as “utilizing the essence of innovation to improve the environment of industry”, “relying on organizational innovation and promoting the competitive vigor of said innovation”, “carrying out technical cooperation and assisting the innovation by joint efforts”, and “influencing technology transformation through a creative combination of innovation and the current market”.

Research on Economy Escalation and Low-Carbon Industrial Development in Jiangsu Province

Under the circumstance of worsening international and domestic economy developing environment, Jiangsu must pay attention to and accelerate the transformation of economy development. Through the economy escalation by low-carbon industrial development in Jiangsu City, the paper emphasized that the government should play a guiding role, focusing on the subsidies and tax policy, coupled with the low-carbon technology innovation, low-carbon economy enterprise operation and management of public utilities, public low-carbon mechanisms such as promotion of universal consciousness, and build systematically low-carbon economy development mechanism system in Jiangsu, combining low-carbon economy development with industrial structure optimization, and realized the transition from high-carbon growth to low carbon growth.

Research on the Regional Low-Carbon Industrial Development: A Case of Tianjin Binhai New Area

Energy consumption induced by industry sector is the main source of carbon emission. So it is important to the policy making that research on the low-carbon industrial development, which is aiming to establish an industry system with low-carbon character. There are four restrictive factors on low-carbon industrial development in Tianjin Binhai New Area of China: the rather large scale of the secondary industry, the heavy industrial structure which strongly caused the increasing energy consumption, the high-carbon energy structure of industrial sector, and the lower industrial energy efficiency which has certain gap compared with other regions. Several countermeasures are proposed to reduce carbon emission induced by industrial sector, such as improving energy efficiency, optimizing energy structure, establishing multiple-access financing mechanism to encourage R&D on low-carbon technology, enhancing the development of low carbon industry, participating in the international cooperation actively, and making strategic plan of low-carbon industrial development.