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DOI	10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y
	Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
	Mi Z.; Zheng J.; Meng J.; Ou J.; Hubacek K.; Liu Z.; Coffman D.M.; Stern N.; Liang S.; Wei Y.-M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	529
结束页码	537
卷号	3 期号:7
英文摘要	There are substantial differences in carbon footprints across households. This study applied an environmentally extended multiregional input–output approach to estimate household carbon footprints for 12 different income groups of China’s 30 regions. Subsequently, carbon footprint Gini coefficients were calculated to measure carbon inequality for households across provinces. We found that the top 5% of income earners were responsible for 17% of the national household carbon footprint in 2012, while the bottom half of income earners caused only 25%. Carbon inequality declined with economic growth in China across space and time in two ways: first, carbon footprints showed greater convergence in the wealthier coastal regions than in the poorer inland regions; second, China’s national carbon footprint Gini coefficients declined from 0.44 in 2007 to 0.37 in 2012. We argue that economic growth not only increases income levels but also contributes to an overall reduction in carbon inequality in China. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Economic analysis; Emission control; Coastal regions; Economic growths; Gini coefficients; Income groups; Income levels; Space and time; Two ways; Carbon footprint
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163359
作者单位	The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Water Security Research Centre, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Center for Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (CIREES), Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; Department of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom; State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Con...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mi Z.,Zheng J.,Meng J.,et al. Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China[J],2020,3(7).
APA	Mi Z..,Zheng J..,Meng J..,Ou J..,Hubacek K..,...&Wei Y.-M..(2020).Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China.Nature Sustainability,3(7).
MLA	Mi Z.,et al."Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China".Nature Sustainability 3.7(2020).