| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 194, 2020
2020 5th International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environment Research (ICAEER 2020)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 04003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Environmental Protection and Pollution Control | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019404003 | |
| Published online | 15 October 2020 | |
Relationships among energy consumption, air pollution and economic growth in China
Economy and Management School, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, PR China
* Corresponding author: 1468507309@qq.com
How to solve air pollution problerms in the process of economic development have arouse policy makers’ attention in China. This paper examines the long-term relationships between industrial gas emission, energy consumption and economic growth in China from 1983 to 2014. Results show that both economic growth and energy consumption have significant effect on industrial gas emission for a long period. Energy consumption is the Granger causality of industrial gas emission at the 5% significant level, but not vice versa. Economic growth is also the Granger causality of industrial air emissions, but not vice versa. In the long term, it is essential to decrease energy consumption in order to attain high air quality. Making energy policy should pay attention to improve efficiency, so as to keep balance between economic growth, energy consumption and environmental protection. When making energy and economy policies, the government need to consider the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and atmospheric protection so as to seek a balance between energy , economy and environment protection.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.