Research on China export structure adjustment: an embodied carbon perspective

Gong, Pi-qin; Tang, Bao-Jun; Xiao, Yu-chong; Lin, Gaojie; Liu, Jianyun

doi:10.1007/s11069-015-1948-7

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“…There are several methods to evaluate embodied carbon emissions, such as the input-output model and life cycle assessment (LCA) method. Many scholars used them to study the aggregate embodied carbon emissions of a region or country, such as the embodied carbon emission in China exports calculated by the input-output method from Gong et al (2016), Zhu et al ( 2020) also used the inputoutput model to estimate the embodied carbon emission from China's building sector. Kayacetin and Tanyer (2020) assessed the embodied carbon of the built environment by developing the LCA method, Li et al (2021a) adopted the LCA method to calculate embodied carbon emission of straw bale rural houses.…”

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Critical Transmission Paths of Aggregate Embodied Carbon Emission Influencing Factors in China

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Front. Energy Res.

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Carbon emissions, being embedded in sectorial production chains, need to be reduced through targeted carbon emission reduction strategies. For such a reason, it is urgent to assess the contributions of different influencing factors among different sectors for different supply chains. Focused on China, being the world’s largest carbon emitter, this paper uses the latest 2018 China’s input-output table to assess different factors, at sectoral scale, related to embodied carbon emissions. The analysis proved that the total final use factor prompted the largest emission growth, while the input-output structure factor inhibited the emission increase significantly. The gross fixed capital formation category was the largest contributor to aggregate embodied carbon emission growth, followed by urban consumption and export categories. The construction was identified as a key sector for its embodied carbon emission, the most relevant intermediate inputs to construction sector are the manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, the smelting and rolling of metals, and the production and supply of electric power and heat power sectors. Results indicate that, in the case of China, low-carbon building materials should be favored in the future. Meanwhile, energy-saving should be promoted among urban residents to increase the effectiveness of carbon emissions reduction strategies.

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Critical Transmission Paths of Aggregate Embodied Carbon Emission Influencing Factors in China

Liu

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Front. Energy Res.

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The climate impacts and potential benefits of services export growth in developing countries

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2024

Science of The Total Environment

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Decomposition analysis of China's chemical sector energy-related CO₂ emissions: From an extended SDA approach perspective

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Jahanger

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Energy & Environment

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The excessive growth of carbon emissions (CO2E) from industrial energy use not only exacerbates global warming and severely curbs the sustainable development of the economy and society. As a high energy-consuming sector second only to the fossil energy division, the power and heavy division, China's chemical industry should have received more attention for its CO2E. However, there are limited literatures on energy CO2E in China's chemical sector at present. Based on this fact, this current paper uses the energy utilization approach, the input–output analysis approach, and the extended structural decomposition method to evaluate the energy-related CO2E of China's chemical sector from 2007 to 2017. (1) China's chemical sector energy-related CO2E showed a trend of first growth and then a slow decline, demonstrating that the rapid growth of China's chemical sector energy-related CO2E has been effectively controlled; However, it should be noted that the chemical industry is still dominated by high-CO2E energy-related CO2E at the current stage. (2) Input structure and energy intensity effects have a reduced influence on the growth of energy-related CO2E in China's chemical sector. This is due to upgrading energy use technology and optimizing the generalized technology progress rate in the chemical sector. (3) Energy structure and final demand effects have encouraged the growth of the chemical sector's energy-related CO2E. It shows that the industrial system's demand for chemical products is constantly expanding, and the chemical products still have the characteristics of high carbonization. Also, the chemical sector's supply-side energy utilization structure has not been significantly enhanced.

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Research on China export structure adjustment: an embodied carbon perspective

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Critical Transmission Paths of Aggregate Embodied Carbon Emission Influencing Factors in China

Critical Transmission Paths of Aggregate Embodied Carbon Emission Influencing Factors in China

The climate impacts and potential benefits of services export growth in developing countries

Decomposition analysis of China's chemical sector energy-related CO₂ emissions: From an extended SDA approach perspective

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Research on China export structure adjustment: an embodied carbon perspective

Cited by 4 publications

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Critical Transmission Paths of Aggregate Embodied Carbon Emission Influencing Factors in China

Critical Transmission Paths of Aggregate Embodied Carbon Emission Influencing Factors in China

The climate impacts and potential benefits of services export growth in developing countries

Decomposition analysis of China's chemical sector energy-related CO2 emissions: From an extended SDA approach perspective

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Decomposition analysis of China's chemical sector energy-related CO₂ emissions: From an extended SDA approach perspective