TY - BOOK ID - 85504698 TI - Decoupling of Emissions and GDP: Evidence from Aggregate and Provincial Chinese Data AU - Cohen, Gail. AU - Jalles, João Tovar. AU - Loungani, Prakash. AU - Marto, Ricardo. AU - Wang, Gewei. PY - 2018 SN - 1484351614 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Environmental Economics KW - Environmental Conservation and Protection KW - Natural Resources KW - Business Fluctuations KW - Cycles KW - Environment and Growth KW - Energy and the Macroeconomy KW - Climate KW - Natural Disasters and Their Management KW - Global Warming KW - Environment and Development KW - Environment and Trade KW - Sustainability KW - Environmental Accounts and Accounting KW - Environmental Equity KW - Population Growth KW - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions KW - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data) KW - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General KW - Climate change KW - Economic growth KW - Environmental management KW - Greenhouse gas emissions KW - Personal income KW - Business cycles KW - Non-renewable resources KW - Environment KW - National accounts KW - Greenhouse gases KW - Income KW - Natural resources KW - Climatic changes KW - China, People's Republic of UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85504698 AB - We provide a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and GDP in China using both aggregate and provincial data. The Kuznets elasticity is about 0.6 for China, higher than that in advanced countries but below that of major emerging markets. The elasticity is somewhat lower for consumption-based emissions than for production-based emissions, providing mild evidence consistent with the “pollution haven” hypothesis. The Kuznets elasticity is much lower for the last three decades than for the three previous decades, suggesting a longer-term trend toward decoupling as China has become richer. Further evidence of this comes from provincial data: richer provinces tend to have smaller Kuznets elasticities than poorer ones. In addition to the trend relationship, we find that the Environmental Okun's Law holds in China. ER -