Exploring the Relationship between Urbanization and Carbon Dioxide Emission: A Case Study of China

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10.2991/itms-15.2015.133How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Urbanization; Carbon emission; Cointegration test; Granger causality test; China

Abstract

Climate change is a global issue that now represents a serious threat to human health and the environment; as such, it constitutes a common concern for the entire international community. Carbon emission now constitutes the main cause of global warming, and rapid urbanization can increase carbon emission. Thus, this paper empirically investigated the relationship between urbanization and carbon emission in China. The econometric model was utilized taking the period 1995-2011 into consideration. Cointegration test indicated that urbanization and carbon emission were cointegrated. There was a long-term stable equilibrium relationship between urbanization and carbon emission. Specifically, 1% increase in urbanization will increase carbon emission by 1.648%. Granger causality test indicated that there was a one way causal relationship from urbanization to carbon emission. That is, urbanization can cause carbon emission, and carbon emission does not cause urbanization. The findings of this study have important implication that quantifying the relationship between urbanization and carbon emission can in fact help the implementation of energy saving and emission reduction policy.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Shaojian Wang
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DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Exploring the Relationship between Urbanization and Carbon Dioxide Emission: A Case Study of China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
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