Title
Research on Environmental tax to affect the economic development and GHG mitigation in Beijing, China
Date Issued
10 March 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Tsukuba
Abstract
As the most industrialized and urbanized region, Beijing plays as a demonstration role to show the impact of environmental policies on the economy development and GHG mitigation. In this paper, we constructed a dynamic input-output model introducing the different levels of environmental taxes. It not only can choose the optimal tax level, explore the relationships between economy and environment, but also can analyze the future trends of the economy and GHG intensity from 2010 to 2025. The objective function is the maximized GRP, subject to GHG emissions constraint and a series of subjective functions. The simulation results illustrated that with the GHG emissions constraint as 1.5 times of the 2010 level, carbon tax as 50 CNY/t CO2-e is effective to promote the economic development and GHG emissions mitigation. Annual growth rate of GRP can be up to 6.1%. The economic growth rate increases 0.3% compared with the condition when not introducing the policies. In 2025, the GHG intensity will be 43.5 t CO2-e/million CNY, 38.8% reduced compared with the 2010 level. This research proves that the proposed environmental tax is effective to promote the economic development and GHG mitigation. © (2014) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
Start page
1871
End page
1878
Volume
522-524
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Investigación climática
Ciencias del medio ambiente
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84896891611
Source
Applied Mechanics and Materials
Resource of which it is part
Applied Mechanics and Materials
ISSN of the container
16609336
ISBN of the container
9783038350224
Conference
2013 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, ICSEEE 2013
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