Input–Output Anatomy of China's Energy Use Changes in the 1980s

Lin, Xinrong; Polenske, Karen R.

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“…Structural changes in production led to a 229 MMT (-11%) decrease, and structural changes in consumption led to a 65 MMT (3%) increase. These findings are consistent with changes in the 1980s for China (15) and more broadly with studies on a wide range of developed countries (14). We find similar results for energy consumption and SO 2 and NOx emissions (see Supporting Information).…”

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China's Growing CO₂ EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

Peters

Weber

Guan

et al. 2007

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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China's rapidly growing economy and energy consumption are creating serious environmental problems on both local and global scales. Understanding the key drivers behind China's growing energy consumption and the associated CO 2 emissions is critical for the development of global climate policies and provides insight into how other emerging economies may develop a low emissions future. Using recently released Chinese economic inputoutput data and structural decomposition analysis we analyze how changes in China's technology, economic structure, urbanization, and lifestyles affect CO 2 emissions. We find that infrastructure construction and urban household consumption, both in turn driven by urbanization and lifestyle changes, have outpaced efficiency improvements in the growth of CO 2 emissions. Net trade had a small effect on total emissions due to equal, but significant, growth in emissions from the production of exports and emissions avoided by imports. Technology and efficiency improvements have only partially offset consumption growth, but there remains considerable untapped potential to reduce emissions by improving both production and consumption systems. As China continues to rapidly develop there is an opportunity to further implement and extend policies, such as the Circular Economy, that will help China avoid the high emissions path taken by today's developed countries.

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China's Growing CO₂ EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

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Guan

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“…changes in the direct and indirect energy consumptions between years t and t 0 can be Automobile Lifetime Extension and Fuel Economy Improvement 9 written in the following decomposition form (see Lin and Polenske, 1995;Kagawa and Inamura, 2004).…”

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“…We consequently assume that the (t 2 y)-vintage passenger vehicles disposed of in the time period t follow the average lifetime in the time period. 14 Following Lin and Polenske (1995), we decomposed an intermediate input coefficient vector of a sector into an energy input vector and a non-energy input vector and estimated the effects of the input changes on the direct and indirect energy consumption.…”

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The Economic and Environmental Consequences of Automobile Lifetime Extension and Fuel Economy Improvement: Japan's Case

Kagawa¹,

Kudoh²,

Nansai³

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Economic Systems Research

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The present paper develops a structural decomposition analysis with cumulative product lifetime distributions to estimate the effects of both product lifetime shifts and energy efficiency changes on the embodied energy consumptions. The empirical analysis focuses on automobile use (ordinary passenger vehicles, small passenger vehicles, and light passenger vehicles) in Japan during the period 1990-2000. It reveals that the lifetime extension of existing old vehicles during the study period was more beneficial to the environment than purchasing new passenger vehicles with a relatively high fuel economy, because the lifetime extension empirically contributed to reducing the embodied energy consumption at the production and end-use stages. We also found that the energy-saving impact of a one-year lifetime extension was approximately 1.3 times larger than that of the most significant technological improvement in the electric power generation sector.

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“…In general, the debate centers around the relative roles of technical change within individual sectors and structural change between production sectors or the three major industries. In 1995, Lin & Polenske [1] investigated the determining factors for total energy consumption in China, based on input-output model and structural decomposition analysis. They found that the decrease in China's energy consumption during 1981-1987 is due to production technology change, rather than change in final demands.…”

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Structural decomposition analysis on China’s energy intensity change for 1987–2005

Xia

Chen

2012

J Syst Sci Complex

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There has been considerable debate about the major factors responsible for the dramatic decline of China's energy intensity in the 1980s and 1990s. However, few detailed analysis has been done to explain the fluctuation in energy intensity during [2002][2003][2004][2005]. In this paper, we use the structural decomposition analysis (SDA) to decompose energy intensity into five determining factors: Energy input coefficient, technology coefficient (Leontief inverse coefficient), final demands structure by product, final demands by category and final energy consumption coefficient. We then further decompose two coefficients, energy input coefficient and technology coefficient, into structure and real coefficient. Empirical study is carried out based on the energy-input-output tables from 1987 to 2005 in 2000 constant price. The results show that between 1987 and 2002, energy input structure accounts for most of the decline in energy intensity. However, the input structure and final demands structure by product explain the increase of the energy intensity between 2002 and 2005.

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Input–Output Anatomy of China's Energy Use Changes in the 1980s

Cited by 221 publications

References 11 publications

China's Growing CO₂ EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

China's Growing CO₂ EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

The Economic and Environmental Consequences of Automobile Lifetime Extension and Fuel Economy Improvement: Japan's Case

Structural decomposition analysis on China’s energy intensity change for 1987–2005

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Input–Output Anatomy of China's Energy Use Changes in the 1980s

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China's Growing CO2 EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

China's Growing CO2 EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

The Economic and Environmental Consequences of Automobile Lifetime Extension and Fuel Economy Improvement: Japan's Case

Structural decomposition analysis on China’s energy intensity change for 1987–2005

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China's Growing CO₂ EmissionsA Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains

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