Carbon emission reduction potential of rural energy in China

Li, Canbing; He, Lina; Cao, Yijia; Xiao, Guang; Zhang, Wei; Liu, Xiaohai; Yu, Zhicheng; Tan, Yi; Zhou, Jingran

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.073

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“…With insufficient energy consumption per capita (50% less than national average), they have been using traditional and non-commercial energy for a long history (over 76.8% of total energy use) (Fan et al, 2011), such like firewood and straw as their main energy sources for nonproduction purposes on a large scale, although many rural households were provided with access to commercial coal (62.6% of the household commercial energy) (SCIO, 2007;Fan et al, 2011) and electricity by extension of power grids and the small hydropower exploitation. Despite recent research progress and policy developments in the field of China's rural energy (Li et al, 2014), most of them are still only some universal ideas of the rural energy presented. Exploration of specific and effective approaches to rural energy based on the energy materials estimation, and analytics of energy and emission reduction options to these rural communities, is still a major study point of criticism and key policy issue in many developing countries.…”

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“…However, the general substantial explorations and effective options are not as put forward as could be in developing countries, including China, although recently case study progress has emerged in controlling water pollution or promoting biogas, especially in some nutrient-surplus areas around the world (Ding et al, 2012;Dai et al, 2015). Several recent studies involved carbon emission of rural energy in China (Li et al, 2014), but overlooking the biogas energy related with livestock and poultry breeding. An assessment of wastes from livestock and poultry breeding and the associated crucial environmental and energy policy remain scarce in China.…”

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Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tGlobal livestock and poultry industry is growing continuously, with large amounts of excreta produced. These wastes could be either important anaerobic fermentation materials of biogas energy or, if discharged into the environment without appropriate processing, serious pollution sources to soil and water systems. In developing countries, rural energy poverty is currently a major threat to sustainable development and livelihoods. Hence, the availability of clean, affordable and reliable energy is of significant concern in both policy and scholarly circles. Moreover, pollutants related with animal husbandry have been identified as one of the dominant contributors to contamination of water systems, such as surface water eutrophication and groundwater nitrate enrichment. Consequently, assessing waste from livestock and poultry breeding and the associated biogas systems is of critical essence in rural energy and environmental decision-making. The present study concentrates on a Chinese context and attempts to explicitly investigate Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) applying heterogeneous panel cointegration methods, combining with distribution and characteristics of waste from livestock and poultry breeding for China's 31 provincial economies from 1991 to 2013. And, potentiality of biogas energy and its CO 2 emission reduction based on the utilization of waste is assessed. The empirical results indicate an inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve in N indicator resulting from livestock and poultry breeding, where value of the turning point is approximately CNY 51,800. With economic growth and consumptive change, problems arising from animal husbandry mode can be increasingly great. There will be many major challenges to address these special environmental issues in rural area, especially in Central China and West China. Biogas production by animal excreta could be one of the most important rural energies and waste treatment patterns, which could reach 63.65 billion m 3 in 2013, equivalent to approximately 20% of natural gas used, and might offer a GHG reduction of more than 220 million tons of CO 2 eq. China should assign greater importance to special agricultural pollution and energy options in rural communities, in addition to 'beautiful countryside' propaganda.

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confidence: 99%

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Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China

Cheng

huilu

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The district belongs to the warm temperate zone with a semi-humid Above all, scholars have mainly focused on the temporal scale and trends of rural household energy emissions, but little attention has been paid to investigating variations in energy emissions in different types of areas from a spatial perspective, making it difficult to provide reasonable regional guidance for the low-emission mode and a scientific basis for national and local governments to make further management policies for rural household energy consumption. Studies of regional disparities in air pollutants and GHG emissions were considerably conducted on the economic and industrial energy consumption of province-level units and paid little attention to the rural energy consumption [26][27][28][29][30]. Meanwhile, data from previous studies are mainly derived from macroscopic statistics and not enough from detailed field investigation.…”

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“…Due to lack of direct monitoring data, the calculation of emissions is mostly based on energy consumption [28,36]. This paper is designed to take account of the calculation method provided by the IPCC greenhouse gas emission inventory guidebook in 2006, as shown in the following equation:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Studies of regional disparities in air pollutants and GHG emissions were considerably conducted on the economic and industrial energy consumption of province-level units and paid little attention to the rural energy consumption [26][27][28][29][30]. Meanwhile, data from previous studies are mainly derived from macroscopic statistics and not enough from detailed field investigation.…”

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Regional Disparities in Emissions of Rural Household Energy Consumption: A Case Study of Northwest China

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to present the emissions status of multiple rural areas from the perspective of a field survey and make up for the defects of the traditional emission cognition of single type of area. The basic data in the lower reaches of the Weihe River of Northwest China were collected through household questionnaire surveys, and emissions from rural household energy consumption were calculated in the paper. In addition, the grey relational analysis method was used to identify influential factors of emission disparities. The results show that the total emissions of the plain, loess tableland, and Qinling piedmont areas are 1863.20, 1850.43, and 2556.68 kg, respectively. Regional disparities in emissions of rural household energy consumption vary greatly. CO 2 emissions are highest in the Qinling piedmont area, followed by the loess tableland area. For other emissions, there is no fixed order of the three areas, which suggests that disparities in emissions are connected with the dominant type of energy consumption. Diversification of energy use might not necessarily produce higher emissions, but the traditional biomass energy pattern does generate more emissions. The regional supply capacity of household energy is the original influence factor of disparities in emissions, and factors that influence these disparities are directly related to differences among farmers, followed by the age structure, educational background, income level, occupation, and so on.

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Study on the Solar Energy Heat Pump Space Heating System in the Agricultural and Pastoral Areas in Inner Mongolia

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2016

Lecture Notes in Energy

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Carbon emission reduction potential of rural energy in China

Cited by 45 publications

References 11 publications

Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China

Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China

Regional Disparities in Emissions of Rural Household Energy Consumption: A Case Study of Northwest China

Study on the Solar Energy Heat Pump Space Heating System in the Agricultural and Pastoral Areas in Inner Mongolia

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