DECOMPOSITION OF THE DRIVERS OF CARBON EMISSIONS FROM ECONOMIC OPERATIONS AND RESIDENTS'LIVINGS IN REPRESENTATIVE PROVINCES IN CHINA
China's provinces(autonomous regions and municipalities)vary in their economic development,industrial structures,energy consuming modes,which complicates their carbon emission features.To identify their carbon emission drives in different provinces can help reach China's strategy of"dual carbon".This paper uses Q-type cluster to divide China's 30 provinces into 4 clusters:leading,exploring,reforming and troubling based on GDP per capita and carbon emission intensity,and presented by Beijing,Sichuan,Tianjin and Inner Mongolia respectively.LMDI is used to study their 2000 to 2019 driving factors for increasing carbon emission from economic operations and residents'livings.Beijing,Sichuan,Tianjin and Inner Mongolia's carbon emission shows a rising trend by population effect of economic operations and GDP per capita effect of economic operations,a declining trend by structural effect of economic operations,energy consuming intensity effect of economic operations,energy structural effect of economic operations.Their carbon emission driven by population effect of residents'livings and energy consuming intensity effect of residents'livings displays a rising trend.Beijing and Tianjin's carbon emission shows a declining trend due to urbanization effect of residents'livings,while a rising trend in Sichuan and Inner Mongolia.Carbon emission driven by energy structural effect of residents'livings has been falling in Beijing,Sichuan and Inner Mongolia,but rising in Tianjin.