Analysis of carbon emission and its influencing factors of Shanghai's textile and apparel industry. (19th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Yunfeng; Yang, Yiduo; Sun, Lirong; Shen, Yuelei; Wang, Laili; Wang, Xiaopeng
• Is Part Of: International journal of global warming. Volume 25:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 123
• Page End: 134
• Publication Date: 2021-10-19
• Subjects: decoupling relationship -- textile and apparel industry -- carbon emission -- decomposition; Global warming -- Periodicals; Global warming -- Statistics -- Periodicals; Global warming -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Climatic changes -- Periodicals; Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; 363.73874
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1758-2083

Abstract

This research calculated the amount of carbon emission and carbon emission intensity of Shanghai's textile and apparel industry from 2001 to 2014. Logarithmic mean Divisia index method was applied to identify the factors that affect the carbon emission and decoupling model was used to prove the relationship between economic output and carbon emission. The results showed that the total amount of carbon emission of Shanghai's textile and apparel industry decreased with fluctuation from 2001 to 2014. Among the three sub-industries, textile industry made the greatest contribution to the total carbon emission, and the carbon emission intensity of textile industry also was the largest. Industrial technology was the major driving factor of the mitigation of carbon emission of Shanghai's textile and apparel industry while industrial scale was the major inhibiting factor. Economic output and carbon emission of Shanghai's textile and apparel industry showed a coupling relationship in most years of the selected research time series.