Spatial Differences and Influential Factors of Urban Carbon Emissions in China under the Target of Carbon Neutrality.

ABSTRACT: Cities are areas featuring a concentrated population and economy and are major sources of carbon emissions (CEs). The spatial differences and influential factors of urban carbon emissions (UCEs) need to be examined to reduce CEs and achieve the target of carbon neutrality. This paper selected 264 cities at the prefecture level in China from 2008 to 2018 as research objects. Their UCEs were calculated by the CE coefficient, and the spatial differences in them were analyzed using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA). The influential factors of UCEs were studied with Geodetector. The results are as follows: (1) The UCEs were increasing gradually. Cities with the highest CEs over the study period were located in the urban agglomerations of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl

SUBMITTER: Liu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9180286 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature