La relación entre la neutralización de carbono y el crecimiento económico —— Análisis del proyecto ANT FOREST y el nuevo consumo de energía.

YiFan Pu
Jorge Bielsa Callau (dir.)

Universidad de Zaragoza, ECON, 2021

Máster Universitario en Economía

Resumen: In this work we have presented and tested two ways of achieving carbon.neutrality in China: the private project called Ant Forest (AF) and the use of new sources of energy. Regarding to AF project, this work describes this private initiative that seeks to reduce carbon emissions by modifiyng the citicen's daily low-carbon behaviors, including mobile payment, walking, taking public transportation instead of private cars to reduce travel, and paying utilities online. Moreover, this work includes an evaluation of AF's potential development power from the perspective of carbon finance, taking in account its advantages and disadvantages. In order to study the effects of the usage of new sources of energy on the carbon neutrality goal, a
logarithmic VAR model was made up to demonstrate dynamic relationships between economic variables and new energy consumption (nuclear plus renewables). We check the existence and nature of long-term relationships between Per Capita Carbon Emissions, Per Capita GDP, and Total New Energy Sources. The model shows that there are positive and negative comprehensive effects between new energy consumption and carbon emissions which have negative effects on economic growth. Finally, the impact of new energy consumption on GDP has alwaysbeen positive while the emissions reduction have a clear relation with the reduction in emissions per unit of GDP. This result seems to point out some Envrironmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) behaviour in recent years for China's economy.

Tipo de Trabajo Académico: Trabajo Fin de Master