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CO2 Emissions In West China

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A number of empirical studies investigated the relationship between CO2 emissions and different economic variable both for developed and developing countries. In this paper we are mentioning some of those literatures which we believe relevant for this topic.
Boqiang Lin and Kerui Du examined the effect of China 's market-oriented reform on China 's regional energy and carbon efficiency. They found that the provinces of west china have a lower carbon emission, promotion of factor market have a positive impact on energy uses and CO2 emission and the share of coal and the extension of the industrial sector were found to be negatively correlated with energy and CO2 emissions performance.
The total factor CO2 emission performance of 32 industrial …show more content…

They also developed energy indices using common correlated effects estimator model. In the long run they got positive effect of energy efficiency on CO2 emissions.
Relationship between energy and sustainable development of Bogota city is examined by Clara Ines Pardo Martínez and found strong positive relationship between energy consumption, the gross domestic product, the human development index and CO2 emissions. CO2 emission and per capita energy highly related with the GINI coefficients and human development index.
Bin Xu and Boqiang Lin use VAR model to examine the factors that put impact on CO2 emission. The results showed that energy efficiency play a huge impact on reducing carbon emission. They also found that urbanization has a huge impact on carbon dioxide emissions because of large-scale population movements towards cities and enhancement of the industrial …show more content…

They considered all CO2 emissions that arise from energy used in production of goods and services to fulfill the demand of UK household, emissions may occur in the UK or in abroad.
Shui Bin and Hadi Dowlatabadi proposed a new approach named Consumer Lifestyle Approach to explore the relationship between consumer activities and environmental impacts in the US. According to them more than 80% of the energy consumed and the CO2 emitted in the US are a repercussion of consumer demands and the economic activities to back up these demands.
The relationship between income levels and environmental quality is examined by Theodore Panayotou to solve the question of how economic growth affects the environment. This finding gives the more difficult framing of structural equations and the more demanding data requirements.
Sander M. de Bruyn explained Environmental Kuznets curves based on sulfur emission which has investigated the roles of structural change and environmental policy as mechanisms. It could be established the EKC hypothesis, from methodological and an empirical

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