Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00127754" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00127754 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0504-y" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0504-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41893-020-0504-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Sustainability
ISSN
2398-9629
e-ISSN
2398-9629
Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
529-537
UT code for WoS article
000522381500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85083051781