National greenhouse-gas accounting for effective climate policy on international trade

Kander, Astrid; Jiborn, Magnus; Moran, Daniel; Wiedmann, Thomas

doi:10.1038/nclimate2555

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“…Evaluating footprints has therefore also been referred to as consumption-based accounting (CBA), in particular in the context of accounting for national GHG emissions and resource use (Barrett et al 2013 ;Kander et al 2015 ;Peters 2008 ). Countries can use CBA to measure both their impact as well as their dependence on foreign economies and environments.…”

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“…Furthermore, CBA provides no incentive for countries to produce clean exports (since impacts embodied in exports are subtracted). It has been suggested recently to address this drawback by using the world-average carbon intensity for exporting industries, rather than the domestic average, when calculating export-related emissions (Kander et al 2015 ). Doing so rewards countries that produce export commodities that are cleaner than their counterparts on the world market.…”

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Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Wiedmann

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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The steep and unprecedented growth of globalisation and trade over the last few decades has led to accelerated economic activity with mixed outcomes. Continued economic growth and alleviation of poverty in many countries has been accompanied with an overall increase and shifting of environmental pressures between countries. Industrial ecology research has contributed decisively to the knowledge around impacts in trade. This chapter summarises the latest empirical fi ndings on global change instigated by trade, discusses new methodological developments and refl ects on the sustainability of globalised production and consumption. Signifi cant proportions of up to 64 % of total environmental, social and economic impacts can be linked to international trade. Impacts embodied in trade have grown much more rapidly than their total global counterparts. Policies aimed at increasing the sustainability of production and consumption need to go beyond domestic regulation and seek international cooperation to target production practices for exports worldwide.

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Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Wiedmann

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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“…For example, many studies working on equity issues discuss cumulative emission allocation schemes [31][32][33][34][35], which are not discussed in this paper. Meanwhile, a focus of recent studies has been the emissions transfer from developed countries to developing countries through international trade [36][37][38][39][40]. This emissions accounting method is certainly relevant to the equity debate, but it was not considered in this study.…”

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Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Global Mitigation Cost: INDCs and Equity

Liu¹,

Fujimori²,

Masui³

2017

Post-2020 Climate Action

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“…International negotiations, such as under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, focus mainly on territorial emissions of greenhouse gas emissions as a byproduct of production and combustion processes taking place within national borders. However, a literature has emerged to argue that such a territorial accounting of emissions should be expanded to also reflect emission transfers from one country to another through international trade in goods and services (Wiedmann 2009, Kander et al 2015.…”

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“…The changes in CO 2 emissions of an economy may stem from changes in an economy's participation in GVCs, improvements in energy efficiency within GVCs, and changes in consumption levels. We use the term "carbon leakage" to denote CO 2 emissions embodied in internationally traded goods and services, as well as emission transfers associated with countries' offshoring of carbon-intensive production abroad (see Kander et al 2015). In the UNFCCC-related literature, carbon leakage refers to the ratio of carbon emissions increase in a specific industry outside the country over the reduction of carbon emissions in the domestic sector, as the result of domestic environmental policy.…”

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What Accounts for the Growth of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Advanced and Emerging Economies? The Role of Consumption, Technology, and Global Supply Chain Trade

Ferrarini

Vries

2015

SSRN Journal

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National greenhouse-gas accounting for effective climate policy on international trade

Cited by 244 publications

References 24 publications

Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Global Mitigation Cost: INDCs and Equity

What Accounts for the Growth of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Advanced and Emerging Economies? The Role of Consumption, Technology, and Global Supply Chain Trade

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