[1]ZHAO Yalan,KUANG Yaoqiu,HUANG Ningsheng.Decomposition Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Hong Kong, China[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2019,26(01):252-259.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
26
Number of periods:
2019 01
Page number:
252-259
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Public date:
2019-02-28
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Decomposition Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Hong Kong, China
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ZHAO Yalan1,2, KUANG Yaoqiu1, HUANG Ningsheng1
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1. Sustainability Research Center, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Keywords:
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greenhouse gas emissions; LMDI; decoupling model; Hong Kong
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X24
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- Abstract:
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To research Hong Kong’s greenhouse gas emissions and climate actions is the good ways to summary scientific basis for reducing emissions in other areas of China. We used the decoupling index and the LMDI model to analyze the characteristics, structural characteristics and main influencing factors of greenhouse gas emissions in Hong Kong from 1992 to 2015. The results showed that:(1) the greenhouse gas emission in Hong Kong had reached the peak in the research period and the peak appeared in 2014; the carbon intensity in 2015 was 40.82% lower than that in 2005 which had achieved its goal of 2030; (2) Hong Kong’s carbon emissions and economic development were strong decoupling; (3) carbon emissions from energy consumption contributed the reductive effect to Hong Kong, not energy-related emissions contributed the cumulative effect; among all driving forces, energy intensity, energy-related carbon emission coefficient and carbon intensity had contributed to the reduction of Hong Kong, other factors played the negative roles in reducing carbon emissions in Hong Kong. Cleaner electricity industry and use of less electricity will be the main tasks for Hong Kong’s climate action in the future.