Carbon Footprint of Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact in Autonomous Regions of China

The research of the relationship between carbon footprint generated by energy consumption and environmental quality could provide scientific basis for the coordinated development of energy, environment and economy. This paper calculated the carbon footprint energy consumption in China´s autonomous regions from the perspective of carbon cycle. Meanwhile, it adopts principal component method to make comprehensive evaluation of environmental quality in autonomous regions. The results show that the carbon footprint in China´s autonomous regions is increasing and the environmental quality is deteriorating. This paper adopts gray correlation analysis to analyze the relevance of carbon footprint generated by energy consumption with overall environmental quality and various environmental indicators and impact conditions. The results show that carbon footprint generated by energy consumption is highly correlated with changes of overall environmental quality and various environmental indicators. The increase of energy consumption leads to the degradation of environmental quality and also increases the carbon footprint.