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Evolution Trends in Carbon Emissions and Sustainable Development Paths in China’s Planting Industry from the Perspective of Carbon Sources

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  • Xuenan Zhang

    (School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
    Research Center for China Agriculture Carbon Emission Reduction and Carbon Trading, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China)

  • Caibo Liu

    (School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
    School of Business, Wuhan College, Wuhan 430212, China)

  • Jinxin Zhang

    (School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
    Research Center for China Agriculture Carbon Emission Reduction and Carbon Trading, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China)

  • Juntong Liu

    (School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
    Research Center for China Agriculture Carbon Emission Reduction and Carbon Trading, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China)

  • Wanling Hu

    (School of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
    Carbon Emission Registration and Settlement (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430071, China)

Abstract

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions is key to promoting the sustainable development of agriculture. Carbon sources play a significant role in the carbon emissions of China’s planting industry. Researching the principles of evolutionary trends of carbon sources regarding carbon emissions in China’s planting industry helps formulate scientific policies to control such emissions in the industry. This paper adopted an emission factor approach from the IPCC to estimate the CO 2 emissions of all kinds of carbon sources in China’s planting industry from 1997 to 2017. On the basis of the data, the principles of dynamic evolution in China’s planting industry and six carbon sources were analyzed by the kernel density estimation approach. Notably, the study discovered that carbon emissions peaked in 2015. In terms of the contributions of various carbon sources to the carbon emissions of the planting industry, sorted by chemical fertilizers, agricultural diesel oil, agricultural films, pesticides, agricultural irrigation, and seeding, their contribution rates were 60.82%, 13.95%, 12.88%, 9.83%, 1.88%, and 0.64%. At the same time, the kernel density results show that there was an increasing trend in carbon emissions across the whole of China’s planting industry and six kinds of carbon sources nationwide, with apparent “multipolarization”. From the perspective of various regions, the carbon emissions of chemical fertilizers, diesel oil, films, and pesticides in China’s planting industry had an evolutionary trend of multipolarization in central regions, while there was an evolutionary trend of monopolarization in eastern and western regions. The carbon emissions of seeding and irrigation had a similarly evolutionary trend in eastern, central, and western regions. Basically, they all had a double increase pattern in carbon emissions and regional differences. Therefore, China’s government needs a target to set up long-term mechanisms to ensure a stable and orderly reduction in carbon emissions in the planting industry, leading its development from the traditional planting industry to a climate-smart planting industry.

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  • Xuenan Zhang & Caibo Liu & Jinxin Zhang & Juntong Liu & Wanling Hu, 2025. "Evolution Trends in Carbon Emissions and Sustainable Development Paths in China’s Planting Industry from the Perspective of Carbon Sources," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(6), pages 1-18, March.
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