scholarly journals Low-carbon behavior approaches for reducing direct carbon emissions: Household energy use in a coastal city

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Ye ◽  
Qun Ren ◽  
Xinyue Hu ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Lilai Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Coastal City ◽  
Household Energy Use

scholarly journals Just Transitions, Poverty and Energy Consumption: Personal Carbon Accounts and Households in Poverty

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 5953
Author(s):  
Martin Burgess ◽  
Mark Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Environmental Cost ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Energy Use ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Database Average ◽  
Do So

Complex relations exist between issues of poverty, responsibility and just transitions toward reduced household energy use. One proposed transitional instrument is Personal Carbon Accounts (PCAs) which provide equal per capita carbon allowances and increase costs for additional usage. Previously modelled PCAs show that a third of households in poverty must curtail usage or pay more for some of their fuel, hitherto making PCAs ethically and politically untenable. Using the UK’s “Understanding Society” database, average per capita carbon allowances and—using occupancy data—the hypothetical allowance each household would receive within a PCA scheme are calculated. Occupancy levels, equivalised incomes and conversion of expenditure to carbon emissions permit analysis of households emitting more or less carbon compared to their allocation. We demonstrate that households emitting greater than average levels of CO2 do so mainly for lifestyle reasons, irrespective of income. Any calculation of legitimate social and environmental cost of CO2, even for households in poverty, must consider questions of choice and capacity to act. This suggests that even if certain low income, high emitting households are disadvantaged by the transition associated with personal carbon allowances this may still be a just transition.

Low-Carbon Life and Low-Carbon Industries Association Studies: Example from Household Energy Consumption

2012 ◽  
Vol 573-574 ◽  
pp. 890-896
Author(s):  
Yong Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Urban Households ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Household Energy Use

Low-carbon industries and people's lives are interrelated. A survey was conducted with a population sample of 100 households. This paper compared the rural and urban households’ energy consumption. It was found that the household energy-use is complex. The urban households’ energy use has a high-carbon tendency. The rural households’ energy consumption is relatively low-carbon, but their energy consumption behaviors are gradually being abandoned. Whether the consumer chooses a low-carbon lifestyle or not, it does not relate to his idea but to the industries. With the economic level improving, all households may choose electricity only. If the Power industry is not low carbon, the life of people can't be low carbon. The article focuses on the energy industry and concerns that low-carbon life is driven by low-carbon industries.

scholarly journals Analysis of Household Energy Use and CO2 Emission using Environmental Kuznets Curve

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-350
Author(s):  
Y. B. Maina ◽  
A. B. Egbedimame ◽  
B. G. Kyari
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Liquefied Petroleum Gas ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Energy Use

This study examined the environmental Kuznet’s curve based on the household energy use and pollution of carbon dioxide in Nigeria as a means of identifying efficient energy for a sustainable environment. Secondary data sets obtained from National Bureau of Statistics on the General Household Survey (2010-11, 2012-13, 2015-16 and 2018-19) were utilized. The study employed descriptive statistics, Consumer Lifestyle Approach and the Econometric specification for income-pollution models. The result showed that the use of diesel and kerosene were declining over the years while Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), electricity and petrol recorded an increasing pattern. However, charcoal and fuelwood usage experienced some decline for the first three years of the survey and rose in 2019. The results also revealed that the total of 105674, 76329, 70006 and 47586 kg of carbon dioxide were emitted monthly based on the four data sets used respectively. With a total of 296064 and 303037 kg for rural and urban households respectively and on the average a household emits a total of 19 kg of carbon dioxide. With regards to the pollution-income relationship, the coefficients of income(y), (y2) and (y3) were all negative, although significant at 1% levels. Indicating that the Kuznets hypothesis was partially applicable to the Nigerian households, while educational level and sex were found to be negative but significant at 1% levels. On the contrary, the family size was positive and significant at 1% level but age of the household head was insignificant determinant of carbon dioxide emission. The paper recommended that the Nigeria government should improve electricity supply, LPG and the income of the households.

Characteristics or culture? Determinants of household energy use behavior in Germany and the USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 777-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Long ◽  
Bradford F. Mills ◽  
Joachim Schleich
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Energy Use ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Use Behavior

Openness in household energy use

2013 ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Jason Palmer ◽  
Ian Cooper ◽  
Martin Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Energy Use
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