China’s Carbon Emission Productivity and its Development Tendency from an Environmental Protection Perspective

Burning coal, oil, natural gas and trees produce large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane. After these gases enter the atmosphere, the earth heats up and the carbon cycle becomes unbalanced, thereby resulting in global warming and deterioration of the ecological environment. To further analyse China’s carbon emissions, this study calculated China’s carbon emission productivity and predicted China’s carbon emission productivity level and growth rate for a certain period. Results show that in 1990-2016, China’s carbon emission productivity has continued to grow, and the actual GDP brought by unit carbon emissions has increased continuously. Moreover, China’s carbon emission productivity is expected to continuously increase. China can increase carbon emission productivity by improving energy efficiency, formulating and implementing carbon budget programs at the micro level, and implementing carbon taxes. Here, we expand the research perspective of carbon emissions, which has a certain reference value to further study China’s carbon emissions and protect the environment.