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Volume 10, Number 2, 2024
CO 2 Emissions Accounting and Carbon Peak Prediction of China’s Papermaking Industry
JIAMENG YANG 1 , YUCHEN HUA 1 , JIARONG YE 1 , SHIYING XU 1 & ZHIYONG (JOHN) LIU 2
China has been the world’s largest producer and consumer of paper products. In the context of the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals”, China’s papermaking industry which is traditionally a high energy- consuming and high-emissions industry, desperately needs a nationally appropriate low-carbon development path. From the consumption-side perspective, this paper calculates the CO 2 emissions of China’s papermaking industry from 2000 to 2019 by using carbon emission nuclear algorithm, grain-straw ratio, first- order attenuation method, and STIRFDT decomposition model, etc., to further explore the core stages and basic patterns affecting the industry’s carbon peaking. The results show that the total CO 2 emissions of China’s papermaking industry showed an upward trend from 2000 – 2013, stable from 2013 – 2017, and a steady but slight decline from 2017 – 2019. Meanwhile, the total CO 2 emissions of the full life cycle of paper products in China have decreased to a certain extent in the raw material acquisition, pulp, and paper making and shipping stages, with only the waste paper disposal stage showing a particular upward trend. We find that from 2000 to 2019, China’s CO 2 emissions in the pulping and papermaking stage of paper products accounted for 68% of the total emissions in the whole life cycle, of which 59% was caused by coal consumption. Moreover, the scenario prediction shows that improving the energy structure and increasing the waste paper recovery rate can reduce the CO 2 emissions of the industry, and it is more significant when both work. Based on this and the four core stages of CO 2 emissions of the papermaking industry we proposed ways to promote CO 2 emissions peaking of China’s paper products.
Contact information: 1 College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China. 2 Networks Financial Institute, Donald W. Scott College of Business, Indiana State University, 30 N 7th St., Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA.
Forests 2022, 13, 1856. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111856 This is an open access article under the CC BY-licence 4.0
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