Low-Carbon Value Chain Construction for Machinery Manufacturing

2014 ◽  
Vol 532 ◽  
pp. 640-643
Author(s):  
Li Juan Du ◽  
Ying Hua Zhang ◽  
Mei Qing Du
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Management ◽  
Machinery Manufacturing

With high correlative degree, machinery manufacturing industry contributes a lot to the other industries technology progress and sustainable development, so low carbon value chain construction for machinery manufacturing is of great meanings for the whole society. In this paper, a low-carbon value chain for machinery manufacturing is designed, besides traditional activities, low-carbon management, products usage and its end of life are included in support and primary activities in value chain, the value chain is characterized by seeking new low-carbon competitive advantages and increasing effectiveness for natural resource recycles, and suggestions to build low-carbon value chains for machinery manufacturing are proposed practically.

scholarly journals Decarbonized LNG: Creating a path to sustainable Arctic development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1201 (1) ◽  
pp. 012067
Author(s):  
V A Fedorova ◽  
A O Mitryaykina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Arctic Zone ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Liquefied Gas

Abstract One of the most urgent issues of the global energy complex is its decarbonization. But it is impossible to make such a transition overnight; therefore, a transitional fuel is needed, such as gas. Natural gas has the lowest carbon emissions rate of all hydrocarbons fuels, it is vastly deposited and due to development of LNG technologies can be transported almost everywhere. The Russian Arctic zone is excellent for LNG production, as there are huge gas reserves concentrated there, the climate allows an optimal LNG production and there is a convenient logistics route. LNG production in this region must be as harmless as possible and with the lowest CO2 emissions to preserve a sensitive environment. Decarbonized LNG is a liquefied gas with lowered amount of CO2 emissions from production to consumption, or they were compensated by offset loans. This concept is quite new, but it allows gas to build a bridge to low-carbon future. This article explores all the ways of building carbon-neutral LNG value chain in Arctic and suggests the optimal way of providing sustainable development in region’s energy complex.

scholarly journals Environmental Cost Accounting

2021 ◽  
pp. 582-586
Author(s):  
Ramshankar Varma
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Cost ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Emission Energy ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Ecological Balance ◽  
High Emission ◽  
The One ◽  
Carbon Economy

With the strengthen of people’s ability to use and transform nature, on the one hand, people acquire more resources from nature and make life more comfortable, on the other hand, the amount of waste that people emit has also increased rapidly. Excessive excavation of resources and disposal of waste emissions led to the deterioration of the environment, affecting the country's sustainable development and the Earth's ecological balance. In this paper, from the perspective of low-carbon economy, to explore corporate environmental cost recognition, measurement, collection, distribution methods, expectations for the relevant enterprises, especially high-polluting, high-emission energy-based enterprises to learn from.

scholarly journals Low-End Lock-In of Chinese Equipment Manufacturing Industry and the Global Value Chain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2981
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Huiying Sun ◽  
Jincheng Huang ◽  
Qingbo Huang
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Equipment Manufacturing ◽  
Equipment Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Lock In

This paper focuses on the low-end lock-in problem faced by China’s equipment manufacturing industry, which is heavily involved in the global value chain (GVC). Specifically, we use the production chain length system and total trade accounting framework to measure some physical and economic location indicators. The physical location measures the forward production length, backward production length, and the location index, whereas the economic location measures various types of value-added in industry exports. The results show that China’s equipment manufacturing industry has deepened its physical and economic low-end lock-in with the gradual deepening of China’s equipment manufacturing industry’s participation in GVC. From a segmented perspective, the manufacture of fabricated metal products (except machinery and equipment) and electrical equipment has the deepest degree of low-end lock-in physical location; the manufacture of computer, electronic, and optical products has the deepest degree of economic low-end lock-in. Therefore, China should accelerate its breakthroughs in the low-end locking dilemma and climb the GVC by adopting various measures such as accelerating the implementation of the intelligent manufacturing strategy, developing service-oriented equipment manufacturing industries, cultivating the domestic market, realizing low-carbon manufacturing, and improving enterprises’ independent innovation capabilities.

scholarly journals Who Is Responsible for Embodied CO2?

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Hans Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Total Emission ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Nationally Determined Contributions

With the Paris Agreement, countries are obliged to report greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions, which will ensure that the global temperature increase is maintained well below 2 °C. The parties will report their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in terms of plans and progress towards these targets during the postponed COP26 (Conference of the Parties under the UNFCCC) in Glasgow in November 2021. These commitments, however, do not take significant portions of the consumption-related emissions related to countries imports into account. Similarly, the majority of companies that report their emissions to CDP (Formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) also do not account for their embodied value-chain-related emissions. Municipalities, on the path towards carbon neutrality in accordance with the methods outlined by C40, also do not include imported and embodied CO2 in their total emission tallies. So, who is responsible for these emissions—the producer or the consumer? How can we ensure that the NDCs, municipalities’ and companies’ reduction targets share the responsibility of the emissions in the value chain, thus ensuring that targets and plans become sustainable, climate fair, and just in global value chains? Today the responsibility lays with the producer, which is not sustainable. We have the outline for the tools needed to quantify and transparently share the responsibility between producers and consumers at corporate, municipal and national levels based on an improved understanding of the attendant sources, causes, flows and risks of GHG emissions globally. Hybrid life cycle analysis/environmentally extended input–output (LCA/EEIO) models can for example be further developed. This will, in the end, enable everyday consumption to support a more sustainable, green and low carbon transition of our economy.

scholarly journals Who is Responsible for Embodied CO2?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
National Level ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Hybrid Lca ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Nationally Determined Contributions

With the Paris Agreement, countries are obliged to report greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduc-tions, which will ensure that the global temperature increase is maintained well below 2C. The Parties will report their Nationally Determined Contributions in terms of plans and progress to-wards these targets during the postponed COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021. These commit-ments however do not take significant portions of the consumption related emissions related to countries imports in to account. Similarly, the majority of companies that report their emissions to CDP also do not account for their embodied value-chain related emissions. Municipalities, on the path towards carbon neutrality in accordance with the methods outlined by C40, also do not in-clude imported and embodied CO2e in their total emission tallies. So, who is responsible for these emissions - the producer or the consumer? How can we ensure that the NDC's, municipalities and companies reduction targets share the responsibility of the emissions in the value-chain thus en-suring that targets and plans become, sustainable, climate fair, and just in global value chains? Today the responsibility lays with the producer, which is not sustainable. We have the outline for the tools needed to quantify and transparently share the responsibility between producers and consumers at corporate, municipal and national level based on an improved understanding of the attendant sources, causes, flows and risks og GHG emissions globally. Hybrid LCA/EEIO models can for example be further developed. This will, in the end, enable everyday consumption to support a more sustainable, green and low carbon transition of our economy.

scholarly journals The Sustainability of Waste Management Models in Circular Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7105
Author(s):  
Carmen Avilés-Palacios ◽  
Ana Rodríguez-Olalla
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Linear Processes ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Crucial Difference

The circular economy (CE) is considered a key economic model to meet the challenge of sustainable development. Strenous efforts are focused on the transformation of waste into resources that can be reintroduced into the economic system through proper management. In this way, the linear and waste-producing value chain problems are solved, making them circular, and more sustainable solutions are proposed in those chains already benefiting from circular processes, so that waste generation and waste are reduced on the one hand, and on the other, the non-efficient consumption of resources decreases. In the face of this current tide, there is another option that proposes a certain nuance, based on the premise that, although circular systems promote sustainability, it does not mean that they are in themselves sustainable, given that, in the first place, the effects of CE on sustainable development are not fully known and, on the other hand, the CE model includes the flow of materials, with only scant consideration of the flow of non-material resources (water, soil and energy). This paper aims to contrast both currents from an empirical viewpoint. To achieve this, a sustainability analysis of the circular waste management systems measured through a sustainability indicator, the carbon footprint (CF), as a main sustainable indicator in climate change action, is carried out. A crucial difference between circular models that promote waste management and those that do not is found in the collective systems of extended producer responsibility (or CPR). One of the most efficient recycling processes in Europe, waste tire management, has been chosen. Thus, the aim is to verify the sense of including environmental sustainability indicators, as CF, in the process of these systems. A sustainability management model (SBA) applies to End-of Life tire collection systems (ELT). This model is based on the accumulation of environmental impacts through the activities that generate them. To be transparent, this study requires a publicly recognized CF, so the study is focused on SIGNUS, the main Spanish waste tires CPR. The results achieved allow us to conclude that CF is much lower using CPR than non-linear processes. Despite the role that CPR have in the management and use of waste as secondary raw material, it is a priority to focus efforts on their redesign in order to reduce waste. In terms of circular economy, all actions are necessary in order to achieve system efficiencies, even when externalities occur in this process.

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