Chengdu's Low-carbon Urban Construction Present Situation Research

• Main Author: Hu, Pei
• Other Authors: 2012 JSPS Asian CORE Program, Nagoya University and VNU University of Economics and Business
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Đại học Kinh tế 2016
• Subjects: Low-Carbon City; Decoupling Theory; Carbon Emissions; Strategy
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/14273
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

The essay has made an empirical analysis about the present situation of Chengdu’s low-carbon urban construction, revealed the features of Chengdu’s carbon emission during Year 2001 and 2010: (1) Chengdu’s emissions has been growing ,but the growth rates presented a repeated fluctuation trend; (2) Chengdu’s GDP per capita and CO2 emissions per capita basically presented increasing trend, of which the growth of GDP per capita basically was greater than the growth of CO2 emissions per capita; (3) Chengdu’s GDP per capita and CO2 emissions per capita decoupling index had become gradually stable; the fluctuation of decoupling elastic curve was comparatively large; (4) Chengdu’s CO2 emissions per capita and GDP per capita both were synchronously growing with a correlation coefficient of 0.98; (5) During the period of "11th Five-year Plan", the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions has always been a weak decoupling state, but the decoupling degrees were fluctuating. Meanwhile, problems of Chengdu’s low-carbon urban construction and corresponding strategies were put forward.