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DOI	10.1016/j.envdev.2015.04.001
	A comparison of trends and magnitudes of household carbon emissions between China, Canada and UK
	Maraseni, Tek Narayan; Qu, Jiansheng; Zeng, Jingjing
发表日期	2015
ISSN	2211-4645
EISSN	2211-4653
起始页码	103
结束页码	119
卷号	15
英文摘要	Household carbon emissions (HCEs) contribute a large proportion of global carbon emissions. For several reasons there are large differences in HCEs between countries. Using governments' annual data, this study aims to compare the trends and magnitudes of HCEs between China, Canada and the UK and pinpoint where these countries are heading and what lessons they can learn from others. In the years when HCEs were first reported (1995 in China, 1990 in Canada and 1997 in UK), per person HCEs in China, Canada and the UK were 0.54 tCO(2), 13.54 tCO(2) and 9.63 tCO(2), respectively. These values had changed to 1.77 tCO(2), 13.14 LCO2, 8.20 tCO(2) by the end of reporting (2011 in China and UK and 2007 in Canada), representing an increase of 7.7%/yr in China and a decrease of 0.185/yr in Canada and 1.14%/yr in the UK. Although the rate of increase in China was high, in absolute terms China's per person HCE remained many times lower than that of Canada and the UK. The reasons why China may not follow Canada and UK's emissions pathways are discussed. In comparison with several other studies, China's average HCEs were found to be much lower than that of developed countries. Among the developed world, Sweden and Norway had much lower HCEs, probably due to the production of electricity by hydro and nuclear power generation and the use of centralised heating systems in Sweden, and production of electricity by hydropower in Norway. Where possible, countries all around the world can learn lessons from these two countries. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词	ENERGY-CONSUMPTION DIOXIDE EMISSIONS CO2 EMISSIONS URBAN POLLUTION EXPOSURE IMPACT
英文关键词	Household carbon emissiotls; China; Canada; UK
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
来源机构	中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/134231
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Informat Ctr Global Change Studies, Lanzhou Lib, Lanzhou, Peoples R China.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maraseni, Tek Narayan,Qu, Jiansheng,Zeng, Jingjing. A comparison of trends and magnitudes of household carbon emissions between China, Canada and UK[J]. 中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院,2015,15.
APA	Maraseni, Tek Narayan,Qu, Jiansheng,&Zeng, Jingjing.(2015).A comparison of trends and magnitudes of household carbon emissions between China, Canada and UK.ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT,15.
MLA	Maraseni, Tek Narayan,et al."A comparison of trends and magnitudes of household carbon emissions between China, Canada and UK".ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT 15(2015).