ABSTRACT

Keywords: export growth; CO2 emissions; China

of 1995-2001 to study the relationship foreign trade and CO2 emissions of China, he found that trade liberalization reduced the CO2 emissions of China. Li and Zhang (2004) employed CO2 emissions as the indicator to analyze impact of export growth on China’s environment, they found the evidence of EKC inverted U shape, and the results show that with the expansion of exports, CO2 emissions growth rate decrease. Song et al. (2008) investigated the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth in China based on the EKC hypothesis using Chinese provincial data, the results showed that there is a long-run co-integration relationship between per capita emissions of three pollutants (waste gas, waste water, and solid wastes) and per capita GDP. Furthermore, the results show that all three pollutants are inverted U shape in China. Jalil and Mahamud (2009) employed the time series data of China from 1975 to 2005 to examine the long-run relationship between China’s CO2 emissions and energy consumption, the long-run relationship between income and foreign trade, the results showed that there is a negative relationship between trade and CO2 emissions, but not statistically significant.