气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Your money or your life? The carbon-development paradox

CCPortal

DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab7461
	Your money or your life? The carbon-development paradox
	Steinberger J.K.; Lamb W.F.; Sakai M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:4
英文摘要	The relationship between human health and well-being, energy use and carbon emissions is a foremost concern in sustainable development. If past advances in well-being have been accomplished only through increases in energy use, there may be significant trade-offs between achieving universal human development and mitigating climate change. We test the explanatory power of economic, dietary and modern energy factors in accounting for past improvements in life expectancy, using a simple novel method, functional dynamic decomposition. We elucidate the paradox that a strong correlation between emissions and human development at one point in time does not imply that their dynamics are coupled in the long term. Increases in primary energy and carbon emissions can account for only a quarter of improvements in life expectancy, but are closely tied to growth in income. Facing this carbon-development paradox requires prioritizing human well-being over economic growth. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	Climate change; Decoupling; Easterlin paradox; Economic growth; Energy; Food; Well-being
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate change; Economic analysis; Economic and social effects; Carbon emissions; Dynamic decomposition; Economic growths; Explanatory power; Human development; Life expectancies; Primary energies; Strong correlation; Carbon; carbon emission; carbon footprint; energy use; human development index; life expectancy; nature-society relations; prioritization; sustainable development; trade-off
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154061
作者单位	Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, Germany; Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, YO10 5NG, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Steinberger J.K.,Lamb W.F.,Sakai M.. Your money or your life? The carbon-development paradox[J],2020,15(4).
APA	Steinberger J.K.,Lamb W.F.,&Sakai M..(2020).Your money or your life? The carbon-development paradox.Environmental Research Letters,15(4).
MLA	Steinberger J.K.,et al."Your money or your life? The carbon-development paradox".Environmental Research Letters 15.4(2020).