Changes in carbon emission performance of energy-intensive industries in China.

As the major energy consumers, energy-intensive industries are the key players in achieving carbon emission reduction targets. The paper builds a super slack-based model (SBM) considering this undesirable output and calculates the carbon emission efficiency. Then, the meta-frontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index (MF-MLPI) is constructed to dynamically analyze the growth rate changes of the carbon emission efficiency and the regional differences in energy-intensive industries. Furthermore, the carbon emission reduction potential of the energy-intensive industries in various economic regions of China is discussed, and the conclusions are as follows: there is a big difference in the carbon emission technology gap ratios (TGRs) of the energy-intensive industries in different economic regions; the growth rate of the carbon emission efficiency of energy-intensive industries shows a trend of first declining and then slowly recovering, while the carbon reduction potential generally shows a trend of decreasing and then rising; and the carbon emission reduction potential in the eastern region keeps decreasing. © 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

Citation

Yao Chen, Jing Wu. Changes in carbon emission performance of energy-intensive industries in China. Environmental science and pollution research international. 2022 Jun;29(29):43913-43927

PMID: 35122195

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