首页    期刊浏览 2024年10月01日 星期二
登录注册

文章基本信息

  • 标题:The effects of economic and political integration on power plants’ carbon emissions in the post-soviet transition nations
  • 本地全文:下载
  • 作者:Andrew K Jorgenson ; Wesley Longhofer ; Don Grant
  • 期刊名称:Environmental Research Letters
  • 印刷版ISSN:1748-9326
  • 电子版ISSN:1748-9326
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:12
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:044009
  • DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/aa650b
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:IOP Publishing Ltd
  • 摘要:The combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generation, which accounts for a significant share of the world's CO2 emissions, varies by macro-regional context. Here we use multilevel regression modeling techniques to analyze CO2 emissions levels in the year 2009 for 1360 fossil-fuel power plants in the 25 post-Soviet transition nations in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. We find that various facility-level factors are positively associated with plant-level emissions, including plant size, age, heat rate, capacity utilization rate, and coal as the primary fuel source. Results further indicate that plant-level emissions are lower, on average, in the transition nations that joined the European Union (EU), whose market reforms and environmental directives are relevant for emissions reductions. These negative associations between plant-level emissions and EU accession are larger for the nations that joined the EU in 2004 relative to those that joined in 2007. The findings also suggest that export-oriented development is positively associated with plant-level CO2 emissions in the transition nations. Our results highlight the importance in macro-regional assessments of the conjoint effects of political and economic integration for facility-level emissions.
国家哲学社会科学文献中心版权所有