中文摘要：

低碳经济是全球气候变化和能源危机背景下产生的一种新经济发展方式,是人与自然协调发展的基本要求,也是未来经济发展的必然趋势之一。该文在阐述低碳经济理论和湖南低碳经济实践的基础上,着重确立低碳经济发展水平的指标体系,不仅从纵向分析湖南1995年至2008年间5个时间点的低碳化经济发展水平,而且横向比较湖南省内各个地级市低碳经济发展水平,通过综合横向和纵向的分析比较,探讨构建低碳经济评价体系的合理性,最后针对湖南省发展低碳经济存在的问题提出对策。

英文摘要：

Low-carbon economy is a kind of new mode of economic development in the global climate change and energy crisis and it is the basic requirements for the harmonious development between man and nature,and it is also the inevitable trend of the future economic development.This paper describes a low-carbon economy in the theory and practice of Hunan Province on the basis of a low carbon economy,focusing on the establishment of low-carbon economic development level index system.The paper analyzed not only from a longitudinal analysis of five time points of low-carbon economic development level between 1995-2008 in Hunan,but also compared the low-carbon economic development level of each prefecture-level city in Hunan Province. Through the comprehensive analysis and comparison,the paper explored the rationality of building a low-carbon economy evaluation system,and finally proposed some countermeasures for existed problems in the development of low-carbon economy of Hunan province.