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Proposing a new indicator to combat procrastination over CO2 mitigation in China
- Source :
- Carbon Management, Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp 379-385 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Abstract
- A reduction in the CO2 emission intensity (ton per gross domestic product) from a base year to a target year with different rates of reduction in each individual year can yield different cumulative CO2 emissions over time, which could have different effects on the climate. In this paper, an indicator is proposed to measure the extent to which the cumulative CO2 emissions are generated by a specific reduction trajectory of CO2 emission intensity, especially for emerging economies with a relatively higher economic growth rate. The proposed indicator is important for less-developed countries and regions in which economic growth is heavily reliant on energy and in which significant potential exists for improvement of energy efficiency. The indicator is applied to evaluate the CO2 emission reduction performance in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan period, and the result is not encouraging, especially when the likely gap between the energy conservation goals and temperature goals is further examined. Mitigation goals should be set by considering not only the performance in the final year, but also the reduction in cumulative emissions over the evaluation period.
- Subjects :
- procrastination
evaluation indicator
climate change
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17583004 and 17583012
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Carbon Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.22d4fac7004849c0b0495d154b5d28c3
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2019.1620034