Analysis on Motivation of Textile Printing and Dyeing Enterprises to Participate in Carbon Trading in China

Global warming is a universal challenge faced by mankind. Carbon trading is a market based mechanism adopted to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emission. This paper analyzes the motivation of Chinese enterprises of textile printing and dyeing to participate in carbon trading, and discusses the relationship between current situation and motivation of those enterprises, so as to help relevant departments make strategic planning to encourage enterprises to participate carbon trading, and provide the textile industry a reference of carbon market operation. In this paper, six textile printing and dyeing enterprises in China with different economic size and main products are selected as the research objects for in-depth interviews for their real practice in carbon trading. Content coding method is used to analyze and cluster verification of first-hand interview data, so as to build a driving model for Chinese textile enterprises to participate in carbon trading.