Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China
Abstract As energy saving and emission reduction become a global action, the disparity in energy intensity between different regions is a new rising problem that stems a country's or region's energy‐saving potential. Here we collect China's provincial panel data (1995–2017) of primary...
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| author | Shuai Shao Chang Wang Yue Guo Lili Yang Shiyi Chen Jinyue Yan Yuli Shan Zhu Liu Dabo Guan |
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| description | Abstract As energy saving and emission reduction become a global action, the disparity in energy intensity between different regions is a new rising problem that stems a country's or region's energy‐saving potential. Here we collect China's provincial panel data (1995–2017) of primary and final energy consumption to evaluate China's unequal and polarized regional pattern in energy intensity, decompose the inequality index into contributing components, and investigate possible driving factors behind the unequal pattern both regionally and structurally, for the first time. The results show that China's interprovince disparities in energy intensity increase and are exacerbated by the enlarging disparities in energy intensity between the least developed and most developed regions of China. The causes for this phenomenon are as follows: (i) rather loose regulatory measures on mitigating coal consumption; (ii) inferior energy processing technology in areas specializing in energy‐intensive industries; (iii) increasing interregional energy fluxes embodied in trade; and (iv) separate jurisdictions at provincial administrative levels. These factors can synthetically result in unintended spillover to areas with inferior green technologies, suggesting an increasingly uneven distribution of energy‐intensive and carbon‐intensive industries and usage of clean energy. The results reveal the necessities of regional coordination and cooperation to achieve a green economy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2810e9088b884e23956dd6c6cd7d0cf12022-12-22T02:32:47ZengWileyEarth's Future2328-42772020-08-0188n/an/a10.1029/2020EF001572Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within ChinaShuai Shao0Chang Wang1Yue Guo2Lili Yang3Shiyi Chen4Jinyue Yan5Yuli Shan6Zhu Liu7Dabo Guan8School of Business East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai ChinaSchool of Economics Fudan University Shanghai ChinaKey Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaSchool of International Economics and Trade Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance Shanghai ChinaSchool of Economics Fudan University Shanghai ChinaDepartment of Chemical Engineering KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm SwedenIntegrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen University of Groningen Groningen NetherlandsMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science Tsinghua University Beijing ChinaMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science Tsinghua University Beijing ChinaAbstract As energy saving and emission reduction become a global action, the disparity in energy intensity between different regions is a new rising problem that stems a country's or region's energy‐saving potential. Here we collect China's provincial panel data (1995–2017) of primary and final energy consumption to evaluate China's unequal and polarized regional pattern in energy intensity, decompose the inequality index into contributing components, and investigate possible driving factors behind the unequal pattern both regionally and structurally, for the first time. The results show that China's interprovince disparities in energy intensity increase and are exacerbated by the enlarging disparities in energy intensity between the least developed and most developed regions of China. The causes for this phenomenon are as follows: (i) rather loose regulatory measures on mitigating coal consumption; (ii) inferior energy processing technology in areas specializing in energy‐intensive industries; (iii) increasing interregional energy fluxes embodied in trade; and (iv) separate jurisdictions at provincial administrative levels. These factors can synthetically result in unintended spillover to areas with inferior green technologies, suggesting an increasingly uneven distribution of energy‐intensive and carbon‐intensive industries and usage of clean energy. The results reveal the necessities of regional coordination and cooperation to achieve a green economy.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001572regional disparitiesenergy intensityinequality indexpolarizationindex decomposition analysisChina |
| spellingShingle | Shuai Shao Chang Wang Yue Guo Lili Yang Shiyi Chen Jinyue Yan Yuli Shan Zhu Liu Dabo Guan Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China Earth's Future regional disparities energy intensity inequality index polarization index decomposition analysis China |
| title | Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China |
| title_full | Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China |
| title_fullStr | Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China |
| title_short | Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China |
| title_sort | enlarging regional disparities in energy intensity within china |
| topic | regional disparities energy intensity inequality index polarization index decomposition analysis China |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001572 |
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