China’s provincial CO2 emissions embodied in international and interprovincial trade

Guo, Jiale; Zhang, Zengkai; Meng, Liang

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.015

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“…Thus, many researchers have begun to investigate the problem of Chinese GHG emissions [28,[31][32][33][34][35]. Some scholars studied CO 2 generation associated with the production of import and export products in China [11,12,36]. Others analyzed the CO 2 emissions contained in the goods and services exchanged between China and other countries, such as USA, Japan, and the UK [13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Value-Added-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions: A Multi-Regional Input-Output Approach

Liu

Fan

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:In the era of globalization and international trade, the production-based CO 2 emissions accounting system, proposed by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, can easily lead to a "carbon leakage" issue. Thus, the accounting of consumption-based carbon emissions and carbon emissions embodied in international trade has received considerable research attention. Nevertheless, researchers also indicated that the consumption-based principle has some weaknesses, for example, it leads the producers inert on reducing carbon emissions while gaining economic benefits. To share carbon emissions responsibilities between producers and consumers is widely recognized. So, setting an income-based emissions accounting method as to producer is a necessary complement for accounting national carbon emissions. This study promoted a model, called the value-added-based accounting of CO 2 emissions method, to account for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions within the context of the economic benefit principle. Based on the global multi-regional input-output table and national carbon emissions database, we calculated the national/regional carbon emissions based on the value-added accounting approach as well as the amount of global carbon emissions embodied in value-added chains. If the results are served as a supplement for calculating the amount of CO 2 emissions reduction that a country is responsible for, problems such as carbon leakage and resistance to improving the energy efficiency of exporting sector may be solved, because all the supply chains emissions associated with the economic growth of a country would be considered.

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Value-Added-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions: A Multi-Regional Input-Output Approach

Liu

Fan

2017

Sustainability

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“…The following section discusses the emissions embodied in provincial trade. The quantity of trade has a close relationship with the level of economic development, and studies have shown that the carbon emissions embodied in trade have the same trend as the quantity of trade and the economic development level [54]. With respect to the PM2.5 emissions embodied in provincial trade, the well-developed eastern provinces had the largest PM2.5 emissions embodied in provincial trade, followed by the central provinces, the northeastern provinces and the western provinces.…”

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Examining PM2.5 Emissions Embodied in China’s Supply Chain Using a Multiregional Input-Output Analysis

2017

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Abstract:Haze has become an urgent problem for China's highly populated cities. Regional collaboration is an effective method for controlling air pollution. Because air pollution diffuses freely, it is necessary to distribute the responsibility for pollution with a common and differentiated rule. Based on a multiregional input-output model, this article calculated the PM 2.5 emissions embodied in provincial trade (EEPT) of China's 30 provinces in 2007 and 2010. The results show that the PM 2.5 EEPT accounts for almost one-third of the production-based PM 2.5 emissions of China. The economic crisis lowered the EEPT, while the ratio between the EEPT and production-based PM 2.5 emissions has increased. The EEPT values of the eastern provinces are mainly due to the EEPT embodied in final consumption, while the EEPT values of the central, northeastern, and the western provinces are due to the EEPT embodied in the intermediate input. We also analyzed different compositions of EEPT, such as fixed capital formation and consumption. The emissions embodied in provincial imports are mainly due to fixed capital formation. Due to the policies of the West Development, the Rising of Central China, and Promoting the Old Industrial Base in the Northeast, the central government increased the investment to these areas. The ratios of the EEPT embodied in the fixed capital formation to the total EEPT of the central (0.64), northeastern (0.69), and the western provinces (0.65) are higher than that of the eastern provinces (0.62). This indicates that the government need to establish different policies to control the effects of EEPT. In addition to the challenges of regional collaboration, environmental damage and the EEPT should be taken into account. The importers in the collaboration should consider providing compensation to the exporters in the collaboration.

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“…Some scholars have estimated the embodied carbon emissions of China's foreign trade (Guo et al, 2012;Lin and Sun, 2010;Weitzel and Ma, 2014;Zhang, 2012Zhang, , 2013. Their findings show that, in addition to the increase in China's own consumption level and accelerated investment in fixed assets, rapidly expanding export is the other major reason why China has seen an increase in its carbon emissions.…”

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“…Two general approaches to multi-region emission studies are the emissions embodied in the bilateral trade (EEBT) approach, as in Guo et al (2012) and Zhang et al (2014), and the MRIO approach, as in Meng et al (2013) and Feng et al (2013). The major differences between the two lie in the treatment of the feedback effect (Peters, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To engage with this problem, several studies have been conducted that have found a large-scale carbon leakage problem in different Chinese regions. Guo et al (2012) and Shi et al (2012) analyzed carbon emissions embodied in provincial final demand and inter-provincial carbon transfer within China by employing a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) table of 2002 for China. Meng et al (2013) and Zhang et al (2014) presented a dynamic analysis on the interregional transfer of CO 2 emissions of China and found that its CO 2 emissions embodied in interprovincial trade sharply increased in 2002 calculated CO 2 emissions associated with consumption in each of the 30 Chinese sub-regions as well as emissions embodied in products traded between these sub-regions and the rest of the world on the basis of the MRIO table for 2007 in China.…”

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Carbon emissions embodied in demand–supply chains in China

Liu

Fan

et al. 2015

Energy Economics

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Using the multi-regional input-output model (MRIO), the paper distinguishes the carbon emissions embodied in commodities for domestic final consumption (CBEs, consumption-based emissions) and those for export (EBEs, export-based emissions), and then calculates carbon emissions embodied in the demand-supply chains for consumption and export based on technical coefficients matrix of the MRIO for one country. Taking China as an example, we provide a dynamic analysis of CBEs, EBEs, and carbon emissions embodied in consumption and export demand-supply chains at the sub-national level based on the MRIO tables for 1997 and 2007. The results show that, in China, the transferred carbon emissions embodied in demand-supply chains driven by consumption and export both showed rapid growth during [1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007]. And the net transferred carbon emissions embodied in the demand-supply chains showed an increasing trend as well. Less developed regions with abundant fossil fuels tend to net flow out carbon emissions.

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China’s provincial CO2 emissions embodied in international and interprovincial trade

Cited by 178 publications

References 48 publications

Value-Added-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions: A Multi-Regional Input-Output Approach

Value-Added-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions: A Multi-Regional Input-Output Approach

Examining PM2.5 Emissions Embodied in China’s Supply Chain Using a Multiregional Input-Output Analysis

Carbon emissions embodied in demand–supply chains in China

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