Carbon dioxide emissions embodied in international trade in Central Europe between 1995 and 2008

Vlčková, Jana; Nosek, Vojtěch; Novotný, Josef; Lupíšek, Antonín

doi:10.1515/mgr-2015-0020

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“…The recent studies on socioenvironmental relationships in these transition nations largely focus on how economic and demographic conditions influence country-level outcomes, including national CO 2 emissions. Consistent with cross-national studies on large samples of nations throughout the world [23,24], population size and economic development are both found to increase national-level emissions in the transition nations [25,27], while world-economic integration, such as increased exports, has been found to be associated with higher levels of CO 2 emissions in these nations as well [28,29]. Public opinion research suggests that on average, individuals in the transition nations express higher levels of environmental concern than individuals in other regions of the world, and such concerns could be partly resulting from the unintended environmental problems associated with energy-intensive, export-oriented development [30].…”

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The effects of economic and political integration on power plants’ carbon emissions in the post-soviet transition nations

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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The combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generation, which accounts for a significant share of the world's CO 2 emissions, varies by macro-regional context. Here we use multilevel regression modeling techniques to analyze CO 2 emissions levels in the year 2009 for 1360 fossil-fuel power plants in the 25 post-Soviet transition nations in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. We find that various facility-level factors are positively associated with plant-level emissions, including plant size, age, heat rate, capacity utilization rate, and coal as the primary fuel source. Results further indicate that plant-level emissions are lower, on average, in the transition nations that joined the European Union (EU), whose market reforms and environmental directives are relevant for emissions reductions. These negative associations between plant-level emissions and EU accession are larger for the nations that joined the EU in 2004 relative to those that joined in 2007. The findings also suggest that export-oriented development is positively associated with plant-level CO 2 emissions in the transition nations. Our results highlight the importance in macro-regional assessments of the conjoint effects of political and economic integration for facility-level emissions.

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The effects of economic and political integration on power plants’ carbon emissions in the post-soviet transition nations

Jorgenson

Longhofer

Grant

et al. 2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…It analyzes embodied CO 2 emissions from production and consumption sides, as well as based on importing and exporting perspectives. Studying CO 2 emissions from production and consumption sides is an effective way to show the carbon flow from supply to demand [10,11]. The differences in exporting CO 2 emissions and importing CO 2 emissions will intuitively indicate the influence of the international trade on a country's CO 2 emissions [12][13][14].…”

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Decomposition Analysis of CO2 Emissions Embodied in the International Trade of Russia

2019

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Our study improves the decomposition method based on the input–output approach to analyze CO2 emissions embodied in the international trade of Russia over the period from 1995 to 2014. The research finds out that carbon was transferred from the upstream resource sectors to the downstream manufacturing sectors and service sectors in Russia. Moreover, Russia was a net exporter of CO2 emissions. 31.46% of Russia’s CO2 emissions were generated for other countries’ consumption in 1999 while 10.68% in 2013. Basic resource and energy sectors were the significant emitters of exporting CO2 emissions. Sectors from traditional manufacturing industries and modern technical industries played an important role in importing embodied CO2 emissions of Russia. Moreover, the effect of modern technical industries on importing embodied CO2 emissions was increasing. The period after 2003 witnessed a substantial decline in Russia’s carbon intensities, which was majorly due to the transformation of the energy structure. Decomposition analysis of CO2 emissions embodied in the international trade can show the trading effect on embodied CO2 emissions from both exporting and importing perspectives. Russia’s case is able to provide instructive implications to the global climate mitigation policy. Countries that burden CO2 emissions for other countries’ consumption are encouraged to participate in the climate negotiation effectively and internalize environmental costs by products’ and services’ pricing in the international trade.

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Climate Change and EU Membership: The Journey of Central and Eastern Europe Towards a Carbon-Free World

Székely

2021

Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Experience of the EU's Eastern Enlargement - Volume II

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Carbon dioxide emissions embodied in international trade in Central Europe between 1995 and 2008

Abstract: Climate change and environmental policies are widely discussed, but much less is known about emissions embodied in goods traded internationally, and the distinction between emission producers and consumers.

Cited by 7 publications

References 74 publications

The effects of economic and political integration on power plants’ carbon emissions in the post-soviet transition nations

The effects of economic and political integration on power plants’ carbon emissions in the post-soviet transition nations

Decomposition Analysis of CO2 Emissions Embodied in the International Trade of Russia

Climate Change and EU Membership: The Journey of Central and Eastern Europe Towards a Carbon-Free World

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