Evolutionary characteristics and influencing factors of carbon emissions in China: An examination of a 43-year urban scale.

ABSTRACT: Since 1978, China's rapid urbanization and industrialization have significantly increased carbon emissions. This study employs spatial autocorrelation, kernel density estimation, and spatiotemporal geographically weighted regression (GTWR) methods to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of carbon emissions across 336 Chinese cities from 1978 to 2020. It also explores the dominant influencing factors for different cities at various stages of development. The findings reveal that carbon emissions in Chinese cities exhibit a stepwise growth pattern: "slow growth (1978-1995) - low-level stability (1996-2000) - rapid growth (2001-2012) - high-level stability (2013-2020)." The gap between cities has widened rapidly, and spatially, the distribution follows a "core-periphery" patte

SUBMITTER: Wei Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11320143 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature