eprintid: 10094556
rev_number: 19
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/09/45/56
datestamp: 2020-04-07 12:54:33
lastmod: 2021-11-27 00:06:59
status_changed: 2020-04-07 12:54:33
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Mi, Z
creators_name: Zheng, J
creators_name: Meng, J
creators_name: Ou, J
creators_name: Hubacek, K
creators_name: Liu, Z
creators_name: Coffman, D
creators_name: Stern, N
creators_name: Liang, S
creators_name: Wei, Y-M
title: Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
keywords: Carbon and energy, Climate change, Economics
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: There are substantial differences in carbon footprints across households. This study applied an environmentally extended multiregional input–output approach to estimate household carbon footprints for 12 different income groups of China’s 30 regions. Subsequently, carbon footprint Gini coefficients were calculated to measure carbon inequality for households across provinces. We found that the top 5% of income earners were responsible for 17% of the national household carbon footprint in 2012, while the bottom half of income earners caused only 25%. Carbon inequality declined with economic growth in China across space and time in two ways: first, carbon footprints showed greater convergence in the wealthier coastal regions than in the poorer inland regions; second, China’s national carbon footprint Gini coefficients declined from 0.44 in 2007 to 0.37 in 2012. We argue that economic growth not only increases income levels but also contributes to an overall reduction in carbon inequality in China.
date: 2020-07
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1774778
doi: 10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y
lyricists_name: Coffman, D'Maris
lyricists_name: Meng, Jing
lyricists_name: Mi, Zhifu
lyricists_id: DCOFF28
lyricists_id: JMENG17
lyricists_id: ZMIXX58
actors_name: Coffman, D'Maris
actors_id: DCOFF28
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Nature Sustainability
volume: 3
pagerange: 529-537
citation:        Mi, Z;    Zheng, J;    Meng, J;    Ou, J;    Hubacek, K;    Liu, Z;    Coffman, D;             ... Wei, Y-M; + view all <#>        Mi, Z;  Zheng, J;  Meng, J;  Ou, J;  Hubacek, K;  Liu, Z;  Coffman, D;  Stern, N;  Liang, S;  Wei, Y-M;   - view fewer <#>    (2020)    Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China.                   Nature Sustainability , 3    pp. 529-537.    10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y>.       Green open access   
 
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