Characterization of Industrial Carbon Emission Dynamics and Network Structure Evolution in China

• Published in: Huanjing kexue Vol. 45; no. 10; p. 5591
• Main Authors: Wang, Min, Wu, Ying-Mei, Wang, Yang, Guo, Yi-Hang, Hu, Ping-Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 08.10.2024
• Subjects: carbon transfer; non-competitive input-output method; China; industrial carbon emissions; social network analysis
• ISSN: 0250-3301
• DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202311038

Given that industry is the major source of carbon emissions, clarifying the carbon transfer regularity triggered by industry production linkage is of great importance in realizing the synergistic development of industry to reduce pollution and carbon emissions. Based on the perspective of responsibility allocation, the study accounted for the industry carbon emissions and constructed a carbon transfer weighted directed network model and applied the social network analysis method to explore the structure of the industry carbon transfer network and its evolution characteristics from 2005 to 2020. The results showed that： ① The overall carbon emissions of industries from 2005 to 2020 presented a rapid growth trend and large differences occurred in emissions between industries. ② The scale of the carbon transfer network was expanding rapidly and the characteristics of the small-world network were significant. ③ The community structure of the carbon transfer network was obvious, including four optimal associations