Carbon Emissions Embodied in the International Trade of China

2010 ◽  
Vol 171-172 ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Yong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Carbon Accounting ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Global Emissions

This paper used input-output table and the energy consumption data by sector to estimate the effect of international trade on carbon emissions of China in 2007. The result shows that international trade has played a great part in increasing China’s carbon emissions. China is a net carbon exporter, with carbon emissions embodied in exports 583.4Mt, and emissions embodied in imports from 186.0 to 476.8 Mt, according to different assumptions taken. Besides, international trade increases the global emissions and makes the problem of global warming worse. Therefore the paper suggests that it is necessary to change the present ‘producer responsibility principle’ used in regional carbon accounting and allocate certain part of responsibility of the carbon emissions to consumers.

scholarly journals Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 372 (6540) ◽  
pp. 378-385
Author(s):  
Hongbo Duan ◽  
Sheng Zhou ◽  
Kejun Jiang ◽  
Christoph Bertram ◽  
Mathijs Harmsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Accounting ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Cross Model ◽  
Emission Pathway ◽  
Negative Emission ◽  
Negative Emission Technologies

Given the increasing interest in keeping global warming below 1.5°C, a key question is what this would mean for China’s emission pathway, energy restructuring, and decarbonization. By conducting a multimodel study, we find that the 1.5°C-consistent goal would require China to reduce its carbon emissions and energy consumption by more than 90 and 39%, respectively, compared with the “no policy” case. Negative emission technologies play an important role in achieving near-zero emissions, with captured carbon accounting on average for 20% of the total reductions in 2050. Our multimodel comparisons reveal large differences in necessary emission reductions across sectors, whereas what is consistent is that the power sector is required to achieve full decarbonization by 2050. The cross-model averages indicate that China’s accumulated policy costs may amount to 2.8 to 5.7% of its gross domestic product by 2050, given the 1.5°C warming limit.

scholarly journals Low-carbon development via greening global value chains: a case study of Belarus

2020 ◽  
Vol 476 (2239) ◽  
pp. 20200024
Author(s):  
Huiqing Wang ◽  
Yixin Hu ◽  
Heran Zheng ◽  
Yuli Shan ◽  
Song Qing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Development ◽  
Plastic Products

The rise of global value chains (GCVs) has seen the transfer of carbon emissions embodied in every step of international trade. Building a coordinated, inclusive and green GCV can be an effective and efficient way to achieve carbon emissions mitigation targets for countries that participate highly in GCVs. In this paper, we first describe the energy consumption as well as the territorial and consumption-based carbon emissions of Belarus and its regions from 2010 to 2017. The results show that Belarus has a relatively clean energy structure with 75% of Belarus' energy consumption coming from imported natural gas. The ‘chemical, rubber and plastic products' sector has expanded significantly over the past few years; its territorial-based emissions increased 10-fold from 2011 to 2014, with the ‘food processing' sector displaying the largest increase in consumption-based emissions. An analysis of regional emissions accounts shows that there is significant regional heterogeneity in Belarus with Mogilev, Gomel and Vitebsk having more energy-intensive manufacturing industries. We then analysed the changes in Belarus' international trade as well as its emission impacts. The results show that Belarus has changed from a net carbon exporter in 2011 to a net carbon importer in 2014. Countries along the Belt and Road Initiative, such as Russia, China, Ukraine, Poland and Kazakhstan, are the main trading partners and carbon emission importers/exporters for Belarus. ‘Construction’ and ‘chemical, rubber and plastic products' are two major emission-importing sectors in Belarus, while ‘electricity' and ‘ferrous metals' are the primary emission-exporting sectors. Possible low-carbon development pathways are discussed for Belarus through the perspectives of global supply and the value chain.

Based on Comparable Price Energy Input-Output Table of Xinjiang to Research Low Carbon Economic Development Strategy

2013 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 1573-1576
Author(s):  
Yuan Sheng Huang ◽  
Lu Tong Li
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Advanced Production

Based on the input-output theory, the paper using the comparable price energy input-output table,quantitatively estimates the implicit carbon emissions of each industrial department,and analyzes the growth of the implicit carbon emissions of the resident consumption through the structure decomposition.Conclusion indicates:From 1992 to 1997, the mean of the implicit carbon emissions of each industrial department in Xinjiang had been rising; From 1997 to 2007, the mean of the implicit carbon emissions of each industrial department had been declining;The implicit carbon emissions of Hydropower industry, the fire power and other seven similar industrial department were higher than that of each industrial department so that Xinjiang should strengthen monitoring on the high energy consumption.The implicit carbon emissions of the resident consumption was still in the trend of ceaseless growth and all of that states clearly that the economic grows at the cost of the increase of the greenhouse gas emissions.Xinjiang should introduce foreign advanced production technology,further optimizing the structure of the resident consumption.

Environment-Friendly Assessment of Passive Apartment House Based on Major Building Materials in Korea

2014 ◽  
Vol 905 ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Yu Ri Gong ◽  
Sung Ho Tae ◽  
Su Won Song ◽  
Seung Jun Roh
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Apartment House ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Stage Development

The purpose of this study is to assess environmental friendliness of passive apartment house based on major building materials in Korea. To accomplish this, stage-wise quantity information of life cycle and energy consumption data were established on major materials through theoretical consideration on life cycle assessment. In addition, basic unit database from Korean LCI DB was utilized to assess and analyze characterization value of global warming assessment. As a result, the value of global warming was smaller in passive apartment house in comparison to general apartment house. As the effect of building materials in construction stage was analyzed to be greater than the effect of energy consumption in operation stage, development of diverse building materials taking environmental impact into account is deemed necessary.

Accounting for carbon emissions associated with tourism-related consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiwei Tang ◽  
Shouzhong Ge
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Goods And Services

This article explores the issues of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from the production of the goods and services provided to supply tourism consumption. First, we define the scope of tourism activities and the resulting tourism consumption and tourism direct gross value added (TDGVA). Second, we calculate CO2 emissions for sectors and compile a carbon input-output table (CIOT). Third, we adjust the tourism-related products consumed according to the range of the corresponding sectors of the CIOT. Finally, we use Shanghai as an example to calculate the carbon emissions that result from tourism consumption using the input-output model. This study shows that the TDGVA accounted for 7.97% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2012, whereas the carbon footprint of tourism accounted for 20.45% of total carbon emissions. The results demonstrate that tourism is not a low-carbon industry in Shanghai.

Structural Decomposition of China’s Energy Use during 2000-2011 with World Input Output Table (WIOT) Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 672-674 ◽  
pp. 2117-2121
Author(s):  
Rui Xiang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Production Structure ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Input Structure ◽  
Evolution Path ◽  
Table Data

By using world input output table data, this paper has divided the change of energy consumption into 5 effects: energy efficiency, intermediate input structure, export, investment and consumption. Results shows that the average growth rates of energy consumption embodied in consumption, investment and export during the analysis period are different. The evolution path of energy embodied in export and investment are almost the same during 2000 to 2007 and then dispersed because of global crisis in 2008. Changes of energy efficiency decreased the energy consumption in China while changes in production structure and total volume of final demands both contributed to the increase of China’s energy consumption.

Energy Consumption Reduction Decomposition Model Based on Input-Output Analysis and Comprehensive Evaluation

2013 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 1221-1226
Author(s):  
Run Bo Kang ◽  
Fen Yang ◽  
Ye Qing Guan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Energy Consumption Reduction ◽  
Consumption Reduction ◽  
Consumption Index ◽  
Consumption Intensity

According to the input-output table and energy consolidated balance sheet of 2002 and 2007, compiled physical-value energy input-output table of six major departments and then analyzed direct energy consumption index and completely energy consumption index of Jiangsu province. Using index decomposition method and SDA method, analyzed influence of changes in technical efficiency and structure on the energy consumption intensity fluctuation respectively from the whole and each department, conducted comprehensive evaluation index to comprehensively evaluate and analyze six major departments in Jiangsu province, so as to find out the main cause of the energy consumption intensity changes in Jiangsu province, and then according to the energy consumption reduction target in the “12th Five-Year” plan, we put forward relevant countermeasures：adhere to structure, technology and management energy saving carrying out together, put the industry as the main attack direction of energy saving and encourage and support enterprises to increase investment in science and technology.

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