Analysis of the impact factors on carbon emission in Fujian province

Abstract

The constant increase in carbon dioxide emissions has caused many problems in environment as well as people's health. As a big carbon emission country, China has responsibility to reduce them. Fujian province is an important region leading the development of west bank of straits, and it's more necessary to build a low carbon economy at the same time. Based on the STIRPAT model, a new model of carbon emissions for Fujian province is build. Besides the population, economic, urbanization factors, a new factor evaluating the non-fossil energy is introduced into the model. The results show that our model can well fit the real carbon emission values. Several suggestions for reducing carbon emissions according to the results are proposed at last.