Mi, Z;
Zheng, J;
Meng, J;
Ou, J;
Hubacek, K;
Liu, Z;
Coffman, D;
... Wei, Y-M; + view all
(2020)
Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China.
Nature Sustainability
, 3
pp. 529-537.
10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Carbon and energy, Climate change, Economics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094556 |
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