ABSTRACT
Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China, is a municipality directly governed by the Central Government. Both the historical and the modern not only make Beijing an emerging world city with unique characteristics, but also influence peoples daily travel behaviors in the city and thus their daily-travel carbon emissions. This chapter reveals the spatial patterns of households daily-travel carbon emissions in Beijing, explains the socioeconomic and spatial factors influencing the patterns and provides policy suggestions accordingly. It determines the total volume of carbon emissions in Beijing, analyzes its growing trend and apportions it to different sources. Economic development is a significant contributing factor to the growth of carbon emissions, because consumption tends to rise with income. The fact that Beijings carbon intensity decreased substantially as its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose suggests that the citys carbon efficiency has improved significantly.
