ABSTRACT
The first to have a research on carbon intensity convergence is Strazicich and List (2003), they used cross-sectional and panel data analysis, and had an empirical research on data samples of 21 OECD countries during 1960 and 1997 and thought that carbon emissions per capita existed β convergence and stochastic convergence. Aldy (2006) also agreed the convergence of per capita carbon emissions with the use of the distributed dynamic method for 21 OECD countries. Lee and Chang (2008) considered that in the 21 OECD countries, only four countries existed per capita carbon emissions convergence. NguyenVan (2005) studied 100 countries around the world which were divided into low-emission countries and high-emission countries, found that low-emission countries do not appear convergence, high-emission countries emerge convergence characteristics. Aldy (2007) studied the carbon emissions in the US by using panel data methods, and found that there is no convergence. Domestic scholar Xu Guangyue (2011) first began to use the convergence theory to do the research on convergence of carbon emissions, and studied that China’s per capita carbon emissions was in the absence of β absolute convergence, but existed β conditional convergence and the eastern, central and western regions of the three club convergence.
