Relationship between consumption of urban residents and carbon emissions in Jiangsu Province

In this paper, the carbon emissions factor method and energy input-output method were respectively used to accounted for direct carbon emissions and indirect carbon emissions of urban residential consumption nearly three decades in Jiangsu Province. Then it analysed the relationship between the economic development level, residential consumption level, consumption demand of energy goods, consumption structure of urban residents, characteristic of urban population, carbon emissions intensity, R&D expenses and carbon emissions of urban residents consumption. Finally it approached the sensitive factors of carbon emissions of urban residential consumption.