The pollution terms of trade and its five components

Grether, Jean‐Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.06.007

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“…In general, exports from developing and low-income nations are more ecologically intensive for GHG emissions, water, scarcity-weighted water, air pollution, threatened species, biomass, total material fl ow and ecological footprint than those from developed nations ). This has been confi rmed for SO 2 by Grether and Mathys ( 2013 ) who argue that trade imbalances tend to aggravate, rather than alleviate existing asymmetries in pollution intensities.…”

Section: Is Trade Good or Bad? Some Final Thoughtsmentioning

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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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Section: Is Trade Good or Bad? Some Final Thoughtsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Wiedmann

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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“…The second approach examines changes in the value of international trade with respect to environmental variables such as pollution abatement cost; see Levinson and Taylor (2008). The last approach directly measures the emissions embodied in international trade (Muradian et al, 2002;Ederington et al, 2004;Grether et al, 2009;Levinson, 2009;Douglas and Nishioka, 2012;Grether and Mathys, 2013).…”

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“…We empirically examine this issue by using pollution (CO2) terms of trade for 40 countries between 1995 and 2009. In calculating PTTs, we closely follow the methodology of Grether and Mathys (2013) and address the issue of intermediate products in export production by implementing input-output tables at the national level for all 40 countries.…”

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Convergence in pollution terms of trade

Honma

Yoshida

2019

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development

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By implementing the world input-output tables for 40-countries by 35-industries to account for intermediate trade, we constructed the pollution terms of trade (PTT) on the basis of CO2 emissions between 1995 and 2009. We examine whether the PTTs have converged among the 40 countries in the past 15 years. The empirical evidence supports PTT convergence; PTT growth is negatively related to its initial level, and this empirical result is robust to various control variables.

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“…As a result, when this common assumption is made, differences in PTTI values reflect only different composition effects. Grether and Mathys (2013) propose the use of a revised PTTI differing from the original in that pollution contents of exports and imports are calculated per unit of value added rather than total value of exports and imports respectively (Johnson and Noguera, 2012) 4 The inclusion in PTTI of emission contents in output traded domestically and generated by induced effects of international trade, is an attempt to estimate and capture what is considered the "true pollution or emission content generated by trade". It is an extension and application of the discussion on the "true factor content of trade".…”

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A structural decomposition analysis of the pollution terms of trade

Papadas

Vlassis

2017

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

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The Antweiler Pollution Terms of Trade Index (PTTI) measures environmental gains or losses sustained by a country from international trade. Measuring total exports and imports in value terms distorts the results when the index is used for comparisons and analysis. Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) can provide an estimate of such distortions, due to price effects. This paper proposes a procedure of SDA of PTTI changes to deal with this problem. It measures impacts of changes in prices of traded outputs, changes in the real trade mix and volume, and changes in technology, but can be extended to account for other factors too. The pollution content refers here to pollution generated directly in the production of outputs, actually traded in the international markets. However, additional induced effects due to international trade can be included, if they are estimated. Pollution intensity is expressed per unit of total exports and imports respectively, and not per unit of value added, an issue discussed. A case study for The Netherlands is provided for the period [2007][2008][2009][2010]. PTTI values and their annual changes are estimated for emission contents in greenhouse CO2 equivalent. Results confirm the significant and distortive role of prices in measurements and comparisons.

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The pollution terms of trade and its five components

Cited by 42 publications

References 35 publications

Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Convergence in pollution terms of trade

A structural decomposition analysis of the pollution terms of trade

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