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Carbon emissions efficiency and abatement cost under inter-region differentiated mitigation strategies: A modified DDF model

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  • Meng, Fanyi

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The assessment of carbon emissions efficiency and abatement cost is crucial to formulate environmental policies. We focus on this issue based on the consideration that different regions have alternative mitigation strategies, which be defined as “natural strategy” and “managerial strategy” in this study. In order to realize this, we develop a directional distance function (DDF) model under natural and managerial disposability to assess the carbon emission efficiency of China’s 29 regions from the 9th to 12th Five-Year Plan. Then the nonparametric method is applied to estimate directional distance function and evaluate the carbon abatement cost. The empirical results indicate that, comparing with our approach, traditional method may overestimate efficiency and underestimate abatement cost. Besides, China’s carbon emissions efficiency remains relatively stable from the 9th to 12th Five-Year Plan, and can be improved by at least 25%. In terms of abatement cost, the value under high regulation for most regions are higher than that under low regulation, which is 246 yuan/ton and 224 yuan/ton respectively, and shows a declined trend. Moreover, given the large gaps on abatement costs between different Chinese regions, it is necessary and possible for establishing a regional emissions trading system at national level.

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  • Meng, Fanyi, 2019. "Carbon emissions efficiency and abatement cost under inter-region differentiated mitigation strategies: A modified DDF model," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 532(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:532:y:2019:i:c:s0378437119311112
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.121888
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    1. Ying Li & Yung‐ho Chiu & Tai‐Yu Lin & Hongyi Cen & Yabin Liu, 2021. "Evaluation of natural disaster treatment efficiency in 27 Chinese provinces," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 45(3), pages 256-288, August.
    2. Tavana, Madjid & Izadikhah, Mohammad & Toloo, Mehdi & Roostaee, Razieh, 2021. "A new non-radial directional distance model for data envelopment analysis problems with negative and flexible measures," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 102(C).
    3. Li-Ming Xue & Zhi-Xue Zheng & Shuo Meng & Mingjun Li & Huaqing Li & Ji-Ming Chen, 2022. "Carbon emission efficiency and spatio-temporal dynamic evolution of the cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, China," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 24(6), pages 7640-7664, June.
    4. Nakaishi, Tomoaki, 2021. "Developing effective CO2 and SO2 mitigation strategy based on marginal abatement costs of coal-fired power plants in China," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 294(C).

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