Decoupling scenario of economic growth and ecological environment pressure and influence factors of carbon emissions in Shandong Province

ABSTRACT

Based on the panel data of 17 prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province from 2007 to 2016, this paper studies the decoupling relationship between economic growth and ecological environment pressure in different prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province, and analyses the influencing factors by using decoupling model and LMDI decomposition model. It concludes that the economic growth of the main cities in Shandong Province is relatively decoupled from the pressure of ecological environment; the population and economic factors are the main factors leading to the increase of carbon emissions, and the energy efficiency is constantly improving in China, which contributes to carbon emissions reduction in those areas. On the side, it demonstrates the basis and realistic possibility of the transformation of new and old kinetic energy.

KEYWORDS:

• Decoupling
• economic growth
• carbon emissions
• ecological environment

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Funding

This work was supported by Shandong Soft Science Project [Grant number. 2017RZB01039] and Shandong Social Science Planning Research Project [Grant number. 18CSJJ27].