Article ID: | iaor20133426 |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 298 |
End Page Number: | 308 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2012 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | Huang Lei, Yu Wei, Pagani Roberto |
Keywords: | geography & environment, economics, statistics: inference |
The international literature has paid significant attention to presenting China as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the world, despite having much lower per‐capita emissions than the global average. In fact, the imbalance of economic development leads to diversity in GHG emissions profiles in different areas of China. This paper employs a common methodology, consistent with the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) approved by the Covenant of Mayors (CoM), to estimate CO