Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80912 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2012/74
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Agriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in China. This paper aims to identify the key factors that have led to rising GHG emissions in China's agricultural sector in recent decades. This research allows for spatial dependence across provinces, making use of regional data from 31 provinces in mainland China. It investigates the effects of agricultural machinery, different energy types, fertilizer consumption, pesticide employment and agricultural investment on carbon emissions. The findings of this research contain significant policy recommendations for Chinese policy makers in terms of how to decarbonize China's agricultural sector, based on diverging circumstances of each region's agricultural system. It also has important implications for emission abatement policies in other developing countries sharing a similar emissions profile and regional characteristics.
Subjects: 
agriculture
emission reductions
spatial dependence
China
JEL: 
Q11
Q18
Q54
Q55
Q58
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-537-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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