Research on China's Carbon Reduction Efficiency—Based on Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Perspective

Abstract

This paper, standing on the perspective of foreign trade and foreign investment, taking export dependency, foreign trade competitiveness, FDI/GDP, R&D input intensity as the input indicators of carbon emissions, taking carbon emissions intensity and carbon emissions increase or decrease proportion as the output indicators of carbon emissions, calculates the carbon emissions efficiency by using DEA model. The empirical results indicate that carbon efficiency governance in recent years of China is not efficient enough but at the same time of economy development, the carbon dioxide emissions that brought by per unit of GNP falls which implies the startup of low carbon economy developing mode. To realize the synchronous follow up of economic growth and carbon emission reduction, the key points of our adjustments will be the importexport commodity structure, the introducing direction of foreign investment and the inner innovation and outer introduction of technology, supplemented by pollution abatement and policy guidance, the efficiency of carbon reduction will be satisfying higher.