Analysis of Carbon Emissions and Productivity of China's Construction Industry Based on Panel Data

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Zhai, Dong Pang, Yajun Wen, Jiayi
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	The paper analyzes the panel data of construction productivity, energy intensity effect of construction industry, energy structure effect of construction industry, R & D intensity, foreign capital ratio and capital intensity as explanatory variables to obtain the carbon emission factors of construction industry in eastern, central and western parts of China. The impact of energy intensity and structural effects on carbon emissions are larger, the capital intensity of the central and western regions of the emission reduction effect is relatively obvious, while the foreign capital ratio and R & D intensity for the regional construction industry Carbon emissions were not obvious, China's construction industry carbon emission factors in different regions and provinces vary, the construction industry productivity on the central and western carbon emissions of the positive effect is higher than the eastern provinces. Grasping these Regional differences is conducive to the healthy development of effective productivity in the construction industry, and control the overall carbon emissions of the construction industry to achieve national energy saving. Introduction China is currently the world's largest carbon emitter, its carbon emissions accounted for 27.7% of total global carbon emissions, per capita carbon emissions up to 7.2 tons, is the world's per capita carbon emissions 1.44 times[1]. At the same time, in recent years, the concentration of large-scale air pollution, but also for China's carbon emissions sounded the alarm[2]. As an important industrial sector, construction industry is the basic leading industry for the development of various industries. But at the same time, as a representative of high energy consumption and high pollution industries, the construction industry is also an important source of carbon emissions in China. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment report, the construction industry consumes 40% of the global energy, and carbon emissions as high as 36%[3]. China's urbanization process is still rapid at this stage, an annual increase of about 15 to 2 billion square meters of new buildings, coupled with the energy consumption of the original building, the construction industry's carbon emissions situation is not optimistic. One important reason is that the current productivity of China's construction industry is still at a low level.
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DOI	10.2991/emcm-16.2017.195
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