[Machine Learning-based Factor Analysis and Carbon Peaking Scenario Simulation for Resource-based Cities from Shanxi Province].
摘要
As a national resource-based economy transformation comprehensive supporting reform pilot area, predicting the carbon emissions of resource-based cities in Shanxi Province is of great significance for the orderly promotion of the dual-carbon target. The study takes the carbon emissions of 11 cities in Shanxi Province from 2000 to 2023 provided by the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) as a sample, identifies the key influencing factors of carbon emissions based on the random forest algorithm, and constructs a PSO-LSTM-XGBoost hybrid model to predict the carbon peak trend of resource-based cities in Shanxi Province. The results showed that: ① From 2000 to 2023, the carbon emission in Shanxi Province demonstrated a fluctuating upward trend in general, except for Linfen City, which had a downward trend in recent years, and the remaining cities had a fluctuating upward trend. ② Total energy consumption, urbanization level, secondary industry GDP, total GDP, highway passenger traffic, R&D internal expenditure, primary industry structure, and primary industry GDP were the key influencing factors of carbon emission in Shanxi Province. ③ The PSO-LSTM-XGBoost model had the lowest prediction error and the highest goodness of fit among multiple optimization models, providing a relatively accurate tool for the subsequent prediction of carbon emission scenarios in Shanxi Province. ④ Under the baseline scenario, Shanxi Province reaches a peak of 705 million tons in 2031, and the low-carbon scenario achieves peak carbon three years earlier than in the baseline scenario and reduces the peak value by 7.94%, while under the high-carbon scenario, the peak value is delayed until 2034, and the peak value is nearly 800 million tons. Based on this, the study proposes city-specific, optimized capacity structure and cross-region synergistic governance for low-carbon development, which provides a reference for city-specific policymaking and precise carbon reduction.