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Allocation of CO2 Emissions with Zero Sum Gains Data Envelopment Analysis Models


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1 Department of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, China
 

Along with China's increasing share in global total CO2 emissions, there is a necessity for China to shoulder large emission mitigating responsibility. The allocation of carbon dioxide emission allowances has become one of the most important global issues. In view of originality, an improved zero sum gains data envelopment analysis optimization model, which could deal with the constant total amount resources allocation, is proposed in this study. This paper contributes to the existing resource allocation method and allocates China's provincial CO2 emissions in 2013 from the view of technical efficiency. The allocation results reveal that several energy-abundant provinces such as Shanxi and Inner Mongolia need to take more responsibilities in CO2 emissions reduction. After the ZSG-DEA allocation, all provinces' CO2 emissions are on ZSG-DEA frontier. The allocation results indicate that different provinces have to shoulder different mitigation burdens in terms of emission intensity reduction.

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CO2 Emissions, Data Envelopment Analysis, Zero Sum Gains, Carbon Allocation.
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Lei Wen
Department of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, China
Er nv Zhang
Department of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, China

Abstract


Along with China's increasing share in global total CO2 emissions, there is a necessity for China to shoulder large emission mitigating responsibility. The allocation of carbon dioxide emission allowances has become one of the most important global issues. In view of originality, an improved zero sum gains data envelopment analysis optimization model, which could deal with the constant total amount resources allocation, is proposed in this study. This paper contributes to the existing resource allocation method and allocates China's provincial CO2 emissions in 2013 from the view of technical efficiency. The allocation results reveal that several energy-abundant provinces such as Shanxi and Inner Mongolia need to take more responsibilities in CO2 emissions reduction. After the ZSG-DEA allocation, all provinces' CO2 emissions are on ZSG-DEA frontier. The allocation results indicate that different provinces have to shoulder different mitigation burdens in terms of emission intensity reduction.

Keywords


CO2 Emissions, Data Envelopment Analysis, Zero Sum Gains, Carbon Allocation.

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