Environmental Kuznets Curve of Industrial Carbon Emissions Analysis in the West of China

In this passage, we use the 1992–2010 statistics of 11 Western Provinces and Cities to build a panel model. Those statistics include carbon energy discharge volume, GDP per capita, population intensity, primary energy consumption structure and urbanization level and from this we get a conclusion that the carbon discharge volume, population intensity and urbanization all have a positive relationship with CO2 emission volume where coal energy consumption percentage is the major factor. Carbon discharge volume and GDP show a significant N type relationship which proves the environment Kuznets hypothesis is valid. It also reflects that in the future economic development, we should increase the energy consumption structure adjustment, highly improve the clean energy such as solar energy, nuclear energy and wind energy to lower the percentage of coal in primary energy consumption structure, and rapidly study the energy-saving and low-carbon technology to finally realize the sustainable development of energy, economy and environment.