Abstract:

With the rapid socioeconomic development of China,energy consumption and environmental problems become increasingly serious,especially the greenhouse effect which results from carbon emission becomes the worldwide focus.Global warming brings severe challenges to the sustainable development of human society, and has great effect on agriculture and food security,water safety,ecological safety and public health security.The paper proposed a method to analyze and compare the current situation of carbon emission and development tendency of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta.Firstly,it calculated the industrial carbon emission of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta from 2005 to 2009 based on the reference approach of IPCC Guideline for National GreenhouseGas Emission Inventory. Secondly,it specifically analyzed and compared these influence factors such as the carbon emission of fossil fuel,carbon emission intensity and the change rate of industrial carbon emission.Lastly,it used correlation analysis and decoupling analysis to conduct contrastive analysis. The conclusions are drawn as follows.The carbon emissions were 2098 million tons in the Yangtze River Delta region and the carbon emission caused by coal consumption occupied the main part in 2009.The average industrial carbon emission intensity of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta from 2005 to 2009 dropped from 125 tons per ten thousand Yuan to 088 tons per ten thousand Yuan.The level of industrial carbon emission of Shanghai kept slow.The levels of industrial carbon emission of 8 cities of Jiangsu province were relatively same,while those of 7 cities of Zhejiang province were different obviously.There was obvious negative correlation between carbon emission intensity and industrial economic strength in the Yangtze River Delta region.Finally,the decoupling analysis of industrial added value and industrial carbon emission showed most cities including Shanghai belonged to weak decoupling region