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This study incorporates demand emission sensitivity into a programming model to explore the issue of decoupling the lock-in effect between economic growth and CO 2 emissions through structure adjustment from a final demand perspective. As a demonstration, the proposed methodology is applied to data from China for the year 2012, the most relevant productive linkages and the most sensitive components of final demand in terms of CO 2 emissions were identified. The results indicate that to formulate better carbon mitigation policies, we should pay more attention to the main internal linkages in terms of CO 2 emissions within the economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]