Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China

doi:10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y

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	Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
	Mi, Zhifu 1; Zheng, Jiali 1,2,3; Meng, Jing 1; Ou, Jiamin 4; Hubacek, Klaus 5,6,7; Liu, Zhu 8; Coffman, D'Maris 1; Stern, Nicholas 9; Liang, Sai 10; Wei, Yi-Ming 11,12,13
	2020-03-30
发表期刊	NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
ISSN	2398-9629
页码	12
摘要	There are substantial differences in carbon footprints across households. This study applied an environmentally extended multiregional input-output approach to estimate household carbon footprints for 12 different income groups of China's 30 regions. Subsequently, carbon footprint Gini coefficients were calculated to measure carbon inequality for households across provinces. We found that the top 5% of income earners were responsible for 17% of the national household carbon footprint in 2012, while the bottom half of income earners caused only 25%. Carbon inequality declined with economic growth in China across space and time in two ways: first, carbon footprints showed greater convergence in the wealthier coastal regions than in the poorer inland regions; second, China's national carbon footprint Gini coefficients declined from 0.44 in 2007 to 0.37 in 2012. We argue that economic growth not only increases income levels but also contributes to an overall reduction in carbon inequality in China. Carbon use often tracks economic development. This study finds the top 5% of Chinese households by income have 17% of the nation's carbon 'footprint' in 2012 but that such inequality declined with China's economic growth.
DOI	10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key R&D Program of China[2016YFA0602603] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71521002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71642004] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71874014] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71761137001]
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:000522381500003
出版者	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/50986
专题	中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院
通讯作者	Mi, Zhifu; Meng, Jing; Wei, Yi-Ming
作者单位	1.UCL, Bartlett Sch Construct & Project Management, London, England 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ East Anglia, Water Secur Res Ctr, Sch Int Dev, Norwich, Norfolk, England 5.Univ Groningen, ESRIG, CIREES, Groningen, Netherlands 6.Int Inst Appl Syst Anal, Laxenburg, Austria 7.Masaryk Univ, Dept Environm Studies, Brno, Czech Republic 8.Tsinghua Univ, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 9.London Sch Econ, Grantham Res Inst Climate Change & Environm, London, England 10.Beijing Normal Univ, Sch Environm, State Key Joint Lab Environm Simulat & Pollut Con, Beijing, Peoples R China 11.Beijing Inst Technol, Ctr Energy & Environm Policy Res, Beijing, Peoples R China 12.Beijing Inst Technol, Sch Management & Econ, Beijing, Peoples R China 13.Beijing Key Lab Energy Econ & Environm Management, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mi, Zhifu,Zheng, Jiali,Meng, Jing,et al. Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China[J]. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,2020:12.
APA	Mi, Zhifu.,Zheng, Jiali.,Meng, Jing.,Ou, Jiamin.,Hubacek, Klaus.,...&Wei, Yi-Ming.(2020).Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,12.
MLA	Mi, Zhifu,et al."Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY (2020):12.