Diagnosis on Low-Carbon City Production Efficiency from a Process Perspective:An Empirical Study of 36 Major Cities in China
Promoting low-carbon cities development has become a crucial aspect of implementing sustainable development strategies.Enhancing urban production efficiency can help reduce carbon emissions,thereby achieving energy conservation and emission reduction goals.This study integrates Outcome(O)element into the whole-cycle management process of Plan,Do,Check and Act(PDCA),accordingly a PDCOA cycle is proposed to establish a low-carbon production efficiency evaluation index system.By evaluating the production efficiency levels for 36 major cities in China,it has been found the overall low performance in China(with a mean score of 51.74 out of 100).From the management process perspective,the performance in Do stage is better than that in other stages.From a regional perspective,the weak links are associated with urban positioning and types,suggesting that targeted policies should be developed for different types of cities to promote technological innovation.The findings from this study provide important references for both further research in the discipline and practical application in promoting low-carbon performance in other cities.
low-carbon city developmenturban production efficiencyPDCAdiagnosis index system
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