scholarly journals Shared Responsibility for Carbon Emission Based on Embodied Carbon Emission in China-US Trade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulong Zhang ◽  
Binbin Pan
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Consumer Country ◽  
Major Producer ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions ◽  
Import Trade

Abstract Traditional Production-Based Accounting (PBA) principle does not consider the embodied carbon emissions in export and import trade. A multiregional input-output (MRIO) model is constructed to estimate the embodied carbon dioxide emissions of 41 countries and regions worldwide, based on the PBA and shared responsibility approach in this paper. The results indicate that the embodied carbon emissions in 2018 in China's export trade were 1326.1 million tons higher than that of import trade. Through the empirical analysis of the embodied carbon emissions in China's import and export trade, it can be seen that China is a major producer of carbon emissions, not a consumer country, and has taken more carbon emissions responsibility for the world. And it is more reasonable and impartial to assign developed and developing country’s carbon emissions responsibility in the light of the shared responsibility method.

Impact Factors of Embodied Carbon on Export Trade - Based on the Research of Liaoning Province

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2310-2314
Author(s):  
Yong Hong Jiang ◽  
Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Structure Effect ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Lmdi Method ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Main Factor

This paper measures the amount of embodied carbon emissions of export trade in 2002, 2007 and 2012. Then by using LMDI method, it decomposes the impact factors on the measuring result of above years. It comes to a conclusion: the expansion of trade is the main factor that increased the embodied carbon emissions; the development of technology is the main factor that decreased the embodied carbon emissions; trade structure effect plays a limited role.

scholarly journals Embodied CO2 Emission Changes in Manufacturing Trade: Structural Decomposition Analysis of China, Japan, and Korea

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 597
Author(s):  
Young Yoon ◽  
Yoon-Kyung Kim ◽  
Jinsoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structural Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Structural Decomposition ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Intensive Production ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions ◽  
Emission Changes

This study investigated the driving factors of embodied carbon emission changes in manufacturing trades through structural decomposition analysis. For empirical analysis, we developed an environmental multiregional input–output model for Korea, Japan, and China for 1995–2009. The three countries, which are economically and environmentally significant in Asia, are not only tightly linked economically through global value chains, but also close geographically, sharing various environmental issues. The results show that China is a net exporter of embodied carbon emissions to Japan and Korea, despite a substantial trade deficit. Its exports are more carbon-intensive than its imports from Japan and Korea. China’s embodied emissions were mainly affected by a change in carbon-intensive production and trade structure, and Japan’s and Korea’s were affected by China’s final demand. At the sectoral level, “Electrical and Optical Equipment”, “Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal”, and “Textiles and Textile Products” mainly affected the embodied carbon emission changes in these three countries. As a result, a considerable share of carbon-intensive production has shifted to China and increased consumption of China’s final products and services in the manufacturing industries, resulting in a significant increase in embodied carbon emissions. Additionally, our findings at the sectoral level could provide important evidence regarding the effective environmental policies that enable sustainable industries. With the increasing interest in the embodied carbon emissions, future research would pay more attention to the bilateral trades of major carbon-emitting countries and multilateral trades.

scholarly journals Embodied Carbon Emissions of Aluminum-Containing Commodities in International Trade: China's Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangfeng Li ◽  
Huabo Duan ◽  
Tianjiao Li ◽  
Yanjing Zhou ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Flow Analysis ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions

Abstract In recent years, global climate change has become an increasingly serious problem. Developing countries have assumed excessive responsibilities for carbon emissions under the principle of producer responsibility. A system that considers material flows to establish the responsibility for carbon emissions more accurately and fairly was proposed. In this study, the embodied carbon emissions (ECEs) of aluminum-containing commodities (ACC) in China’s international trade from 2008 to 2017 were analyzed via material flow analysis. The carbon emission coefficients of China’s imported and exported ACC were calculated and discussed. The main conclusions were as follows: (1)The annual imported and exported aluminum in ACC showed a fluctuating growth from 2008 to 2017. Overall, China imported a large amount of alumina and exports a large amount of aluminum-containing end products (ACEP) and semi-products (SP). (2) The imported and exported ECEs of ACC were mainly due to ACEP, which account for 57% and 68% of the imported and exported ECEs of ACC, respectively. (3) The ECEs of ACEP in international trade were mainly associated with vehicles, manufacturing equipment, and aircraft. (4) The share of exported and net exported ACC’s ECEs in domestic carbon emissions (calculated using the principle of producer responsibility) also increased from 1.3 and 0.9% to 2.8 and 1.7%. In addition, a more accurate share of international carbon emission responsibility was discussed, and policy recommendations to reduce carbon emissions and actively respond to global climate change were provided.

scholarly journals Assessing Embodied Carbon Emission and Its Intensities in the ICT Industry: The Global Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiucheng Dong ◽  
Qingzhe Jiang ◽  
Jianda Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Significant Downward Trend ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions ◽  
Emission Reduction Strategies ◽  
Ict Industry

With the intensification of globalization, the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, as one of the emerging industrial sectors, has played an important role in reducing carbon emissions in regional trade and improving the energy efficiency of traded products. This article uses a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model to explore the flow of embodied carbon emissions and embodied carbon emission intensities in the ICT sector triggered by trade in 15 major economies around the world from 2000 to 2014. The article further discusses the emission-reduction strategies of each ICT sector. The results show that: (1) The overall embodied carbon emissions of ICT have demonstrated a significant downward trend, but the proportion of embodied carbon emissions caused by trade is increasing; (2) The embodied carbon emissions in the ICT sector of most developed countries in 2014 are significantly lower than in 2000, but in developing countries such as China and India they show an upward trend during this period; (3) The ICT sector’s export embodied carbon emission intensity in Indonesia is much higher than that of other countries, and the embodied carbon emissions of ICT exported by Mexico have increased significantly; (4) The manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products (S1) is the main contributor to the ICT sector’s embodied carbon emissions, while import embodied carbon emission intensities among publishing activities (S2) are increasing significantly in most countries. The conclusion of this paper has important implications for how to reduce ICT’s embodied carbon emissions of major countries.

scholarly journals The impact of economic complexity on embodied carbon emission in trade: new empirical evidence from cross-country panel data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qayyum ◽  
Yuyuan Yu ◽  
Shijie Li
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Economic Complexity ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Indirect Impacts

AbstractEstablishing a fair platform for allocating carbon emission responsibility worldwide determines the sustainability and efficiency of the world’s climate policy and framework. In the context of global environmental load displacement and CO2 transfer, this paper endeavors to examine the relationship between economic complexity and embodied carbon emissions based on cross-country panel data. Our study utilizes the generalized method of moments (GMM) approach to estimate our dynamic models covering 34 OECD countries and 24 non-OECD countries from 1995 to 2015. The empirical results show a heterogeneous impact of economic complexity on embodied carbon emissions in exports (EEE) and imports (EEI). Besides, the scale effect, composition effect, and technology effect are also significant drivers of embodied carbon emissions. The improvement of economic complexity can decrease the marginal effects of export scale and export structure on foreign EEE (but not domestic EEE) significantly, while the marginal positive impacts of technology on EEE can be further enhanced by economic complexity growth. Moreover, there is no strong evidence to prove the significant indirect impacts of economic complexity on foreign carbon emission embodied in imports, while economic complexity has significantly positive indirect impacts on domestic carbon emission embodied in imports only through import scale. In the subsample regressions, we found asymmetric impacts of economic complexity between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries.

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