Global water transfers embodied in international trade: Tracking imbalanced and inefficient flows

Han, Mengyao; Chen, G.Q.; Li, Y.L.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.195

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“…While a multiregional input‐output (MRIO) model that interconnects multiple regions reflects the interregional and intraregional economic connection (B. Zhang, Li, et al, , ), the global MRIO modeling can provide a robust assessment on the demand‐driven resource use and environmental emissions in the production and trade network of the world economy. Extensive studies have been conducted on the global MRIO analyses of resource and emission requirements associated with production, consumption, and international trade, such as water (Ali, ; Z. M. Chen & Chen, ; Feng et al, ; Han et al, ; Lenzen, Moran, Bhaduri, et al, ), energy (G. Q. Chen & Wu, ; B. Chen, Li, et al, ), materials (X. Tian et al, ; Wiedmann et al, ), land (G. Q. Chen & Han, ; B. Chen, Han, et al, ; X. D. Wu et al, ), biodiversity (Lenzen, Moran, et al, ), CO 2 (Andreoni & Galmarini, ; Davis & Caldeira, ; Fan et al, ; Jiang & Green, ; Liddle, ; Malik et al, ; Pablo‐Romero & Sánchez‐Braza, ; J. Tian et al, ), air pollutants (Kanemoto et al, ; Lin et al, , ; Meng et al, ; Q. Zhang et al, ), and so forth. At present, MRIO account and analysis has become a popular approach to measure and assess consumption‐based global GHG emissions (e.g., Arto & Dietzenbacher, ; Caro et al, ; Peters, ).…”

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“…Extensive studies have been conducted on the global MRIO analyses of resource and emission requirements associated with production, consumption, and international trade, such as water (Ali, 2017;Z. M. Chen & Chen, 2013;Feng et al, 2011;Han et al, 2018;Lenzen, Moran, Bhaduri, et al, 2013), energy (G. Q. , materials (X. Tian et al, 2017;Wiedmann et al, 2013), land (G. Q.…”

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Consumption‐Based Accounting of Global Anthropogenic CH₄ Emissions

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Global anthropogenic CH4 emissions have witnessed a rapid increase in the last decade. However, how this increase is connected with its socioeconomic drivers has not yet been explored. In this paper, we highlight the impacts of final demand and international trade on global anthropogenic CH4 emissions based on the consumption‐based accounting principle. We find that household consumption was the largest final demand category, followed by fixed capital formation and government consumption. The position and function of nations and major economies to act on the structure and spatial patterns of global CH4 emissions were systematically clarified. Substantial geographic shifts of CH4 emissions during 2000–2012 revealed the prominent impact of international trade. In 2012, about half of global CH4 emissions were embodied in international trade, of which 77.8% were from intermediate trade and 22.2% from final trade. Mainland China was the largest exporter of embodied CH4 emissions, while the United States was the largest importer. Developed economies such as Western Europe, the United States, and Japan were major net receivers of embodied emission transfer, mainly from developing countries. CH4 emission footprints of nations were closely related to their human development indexes and per capita gross domestic products. Our findings could help to improve current understanding of global anthropogenic CH4 emission increases and to pinpoint regional and sectoral hotspots for possible emission mitigation in the entire supply chains from production to consumption.

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Consumption‐Based Accounting of Global Anthropogenic CH₄ Emissions

Zhang

Zhao

et al. 2018

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“…Especially since China's accession to the WTO in 2001, the volume of foreign trade has boomed: the import volume increased from RMB 1863.8 billion in 2000 to RMB 18,409.8 billion in 2017 and the export volume increased from RMB 2063.4 billion to RMB 22,635.2 billion, which was eleven times than that in 2000, making China the leading trade country in the world (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2018). Nevertheless, the expanding imports and exports may exacerbate the depletion of natural resources ( Liang et al, 2007 ; Shui and Harriss, 2006 ; Tian et al, 2018 ), as there are substantial amounts of resources embodied in trade, such as water ( Han et al, 2018 ), coal ( Wang et al, 2019 ), land ( Yu et al, 2013 ) and metal resource in particular. However, when discussing the trade of metal resources, imported and exported products containing metals are rarely considered.…”

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What drives embodied metal consumption in China's imports and exports

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The expansion of trade has not only increased imports and exports, but also increased metal consumption embodied in them. Based on China's input-output tables from 1997 to 2017, this study uses structural decomposition analysis (SDA) to analyze China's consumption of embodied metal in imports and exports in each sector, and identify their driving factors at the holistic, industrial and sub-sectoral levels. The results show the following. 1) China is a net importer of embodied ferrous metal and a net exporter of embodied non-ferrous metal, and the change of the embodied metal consumption showed an inverted U-shape. 2) The scale effect was the main driver for these increases; the technology and intensity effect were the primary inhibitor of embodied ferrous and non-ferrous metal consumption, respectively; the structure effect increased metal consumption embodied in imports more than in export. 3) Industry contributed most to the consumption, and the factors were heterogeneous in different industrial sub-sectors: the inhibitory effect of technology was more obvious in imports than in exports, and the structure effect promoted more embodied ferrous metal consumption import and more non-ferrous metal consumption export; the intensity effect was promoter before 2007 while its inhibitory effect became more obvious after 2012.4) China's technology level and metal utilization efficiency were still lower than those in foreign countries; the effect of technology to reduce embodied metal consumption was small but had potential impact. Based on these results, relative policy recommendations are proposed.

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“…More recently the deepening of globalization and the increasing acuteness of related natural resource and environmental issues have seen the publication of articles using these methods in prestigious journals like Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (Lenzen et al, 2012b;Liu et al, 2015b;Zhang et al, 2017). This research has sought to identify the resource and environmental impacts of geographies of production and consumption (Li et al, 2013;Han et al, 2017;Li and Han, 2018). A number of these studies have revealed environmental linkages caused by the spatial shift of industrial capacity from developed to developing countries and the consequent rapid increase in international trade, showing in some cases that carbon leakages are mainly from emerging to developed economies, such as the United States, Japan, and some EU countries (Ahmad and Wyckoff, 2003;Davis and Caldeira, 2010).…”

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Tracking embodied carbon flows in the Belt and Road regions

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In the past few decades, economic globalization has driven rapid growth of cross-border trade and a new international division of labor, leading to increasing inter-country embodied carbon flows. Multi-region input-output (MRIO) analysis is used to identify embodied carbon flows between major world regions, including seven regions along the Belt and Road (BR), and the spatial distribution of production-and consumption-based carbon intensities. The results show that current embodied carbon flows are virtually all from BR regions to developed countries, with more than 95% of world net embodied carbon exports coming from BR regions. Consumption in the United States and European Union countries induce about 30% of the carbon emissions in most BR regions, indicating that the former bear a high proportion of consumers' responsibility for the carbon emitted in the latter. For this reason, measuring environmental responsibilities from consumption rather than a production-based perspective is more equitable, while developing countries should be given a louder voice in the construction through dialogue and cooperation, in part in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, of an inclusive global climate governance system.

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Global water transfers embodied in international trade: Tracking imbalanced and inefficient flows

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Consumption‐Based Accounting of Global Anthropogenic CH₄ Emissions

Consumption‐Based Accounting of Global Anthropogenic CH₄ Emissions

What drives embodied metal consumption in China's imports and exports

Tracking embodied carbon flows in the Belt and Road regions

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Global water transfers embodied in international trade: Tracking imbalanced and inefficient flows

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Consumption‐Based Accounting of Global Anthropogenic CH4 Emissions

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What drives embodied metal consumption in China's imports and exports

Tracking embodied carbon flows in the Belt and Road regions

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