Strategies for the Decoupling Effect of Carbon Emission and Low Carbon in the Logistics Industry of Jiangxi Province: From the Perspective of Environmental Protection

摘要

Being one of the main sources of carbon emissions, logistics industry is an important area to reducegreenhouse gas emissions and the environment pollution. Studying the decouple relation between carbonemission and economic growth can provide a theoretical basis for energy conservation and low carboneconomy development. The LYQ analysis framework was introduced into the OECD and Tapio decouplingmodel to measure the decoupling effect between the carbon emission in logistics industry and the economicgrowth of Jiangxi Province China during the past 25 years (1989-2013). In the LYQ analysis framework, thedecoupling elastic coefficient between the carbon emission in logistics industry and the regional GDP wasconverted into the products of the elastic coefficients of energy conservation, emission reduction, and valuecreation. The result shows that the relationship between the carbon emission and economic growth ofJiangxi Province is involved in overall decoupling status, in which the positive effects of the elastic coefficientof energy conversation and the elastic coefficient of emission reduction are the main factors, and the lowelasticity coefficient of value creation at the early period becomes an obstacle to the decoupling status. Whatis more, several low carbon development strategies are put forward in the logistics industry from the perspectiveof environmental protection. This study has great theoretical and practical significance for the developmentof low-carbon economy in Jiangxi Province, China.