Embodied energy use in the global construction industry

Guo, Shan; Zheng, Shupeng; Hu, Yunhao; Hong, Jiman; Wu, Xiaofang; Tang, Miaohan

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113838

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“…In recent decades, research on embodied energy using input-output analysis has been developed in a spurt with the continuous improvement of input-output technology, along with the growing enrichment of energy statistics in various countries and different input-output databases. The related literature can be divided according to the research scale, including the global level (Bortolamedi, 2015;Chen and Wu, 2017;Jiang et al, 2020), multilateral country level (Wu and Chen, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019), bilateral country level (Yang et al, 2014;Tao et al, 2018), single-country level (Costanza, 1980;Lenzen, 1998;Machado et al, 2001;Lam et al, 2019;Wang and Yang, 2020), region level (Sun et al, 2017;Guo et al, 2020a;Zheng et al, 2020), city level (Chen and Chen, 2015;Guo et al, 2015Guo et al, , 2020b, and sector level (Liu et al, 2012, Liu et al, 2020aSun et al, 2016;Guo et al, 2019). There are also numerous studies regarding the research of embodied energy of different energy varieties, such as coal (Xia et al, 2017;Wu and Chen, 2018), oil (Tang et al, 2012;Wu and Chen, 2019;Wang and Yang, 2020), natural gas (Kan et al, 2019(Kan et al, , 2020, biomass (Ji et al, 2020), and nuclear energy (Cortés-Borda et al, 2015).…”

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Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

Zhang

Bai²,

Ning³

2021

Front. Energy Res.

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Energy issues are closely related to the development of human society and economy. Embodied energy is the total direct and indirect energy consumption required for the production of goods and services. In the context of the intensifying development of economic globalization and prosperity of international trade, embodied energy is considered as a better indicator to comprehensively reflect the nature of a country’s energy use than the direct energy use. The development of trade in value added (TiVA) accounting and global value chain theory has brought new ideas to embodied energy research. This study applies TiVA accounting to the study of embodied energy and establishes a complete framework to decompose the sources, destinations, and transfer routes of embodied energy in a country’s exports, and comprehensively depicts the embodied energy flows in China’s exports at the country and sector levels as an instance. The results show that China exports large amounts of embodied domestic energy use, and export is an important factor for the rapid growth of China’s energy and emissions. At the country level, the United States and EU28 are traditional major importers of China, and developing countries, such as Brazil, India, and Indonesia, are emerging markets. China’s embodied energy flows to different importers vary in terms of trade patterns, flow routes, and the embodied domestic energy intensities. At the sector level, the light industry and the services create more benefits, whereas manufacturing, such as chemicals and metal products, consumes more energy, and there is a mismatch between the main sectors that create economic benefits from exports and the main sectors that consume energy for exports. These results indicate that embodied energy of China’s exports has a great impact on global energy consumption and carbon emission, and the optimizing of China’s export embodied energy structure is conducive to global energy conservation and emission reduction. This article strongly suggests the importance of the global value chain decomposition framework in embodied energy research.

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Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

Zhang

Bai²,

Ning³

2021

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Hong et al [21] studied the energy conservation status of the textile industry in Taiwan and China and provided a benchmark for measuring energy efficiency. Meanwhile, Guo et al [22] used EFP to examine the embodied and direct energy links between global and Chinese construction industries. Previous research has also used different methods to estimate EFP based on global [23,24], national [25,26], local [27,28], industrial [29,30] and product [31,32] perspectives.…”

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Factorial Decomposition of the Energy Footprint of the Shaoxing Textile Industry

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To present great environmental pressure from energy consumption during textile production, this paper calculates the energy footprint (EFP) of Shaoxing’s textile industry, from 2005 to 2018. Moreover, this study analyzes the relationship between Shaoxing’s textile industry energy consumption and economic development by using decoupling theory. Furthermore, the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index decomposition method was employed to investigate the main factors that affect the EFP of Shaoxing’s textile industry. Research results show the following: (1) The growth rate of the total output value of Shaoxing’s textile industry was greater than the growth rate of the EFP, from 2005 to 2007. Thus, the decoupling state showed a weak decoupling, and EFP intensity decreased. (2) The EFP and economic growth were mainly based on the strong decoupling of Shaoxing’s textile industry from 2008 to 2015 (except for 2011), and EFP intensity declined further. (3) Economic recession in the textile industry was severe in Shaoxing, from 2016 to 2018, and the EFP also showed a downward trend. The state of decoupling appeared as a recessive decoupling (2016) and a weak negative decoupling (2017 and 2018), and EFP intensity first increased and then decreased. (4) The total effect of the factors affecting the EFP of the textile industry in Shaoxing demonstrated a pulling trend, and industrial scale played a significant role in driving the EFP. The energy consumption intensity effect contributed the largest restraint. This paper fills in the gaps in the environmental regulation means and methods of pillar industrial clusters in specific regions.

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“…This approach is commonly called an environmentally extended IO analysis (EEIO). Studies have used EEIO to estimate the size and drivers of energy consumption in specific industries, such as construction [13] , [14] , manufacturing [15] , and agriculture [16] , as well as entire national economies [17] , [18] , [19] .…”

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Hybrid input-output analysis of embodied energy security

Shepard

Pratson

2020

Applied Energy

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Highlights We introduce a hybridized approach to model energy flows through global trade. 23% of embodied energy traded between countries with no direct energy linkage. The global economy is very dependent on imports of indirect energy. The global import portfolio of indirect energy is diverse. China, Russia, and the U.S. are critical intermediary nodes in the indirect energy network.

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Embodied energy use in the global construction industry

Cited by 62 publications

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Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

Factorial Decomposition of the Energy Footprint of the Shaoxing Textile Industry

Hybrid input-output analysis of embodied energy security

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