Structural Changes in Developing Countries and Their Implication for Energy-Related CO2 Emissions

Jung, Tae Yong; Rovere, Emı́lio Lebre La; Gaj, Henryk; Shukla, P.R.; Zhou, Dadi

doi:10.1016/s0040-1625(99)00052-9

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“…Para el caso particular del dióxido de carbono, Jung et al (2000) sostienen la existencia de tres factores cualitativos fundamentales que ejercen marcada influencia sobre las emisiones futuras. El primero de ellos es el marco institucional, dentro del cual se destacan tres aspectos importantes: el grado de centralización y participación en las decisiones; la dimensión y naturaleza de los mecanismos institucionales y el grado de intervención del sector público.…”

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“…El aprendizaje se encuentra claramente influenciado por la urbanización, la industrialización, y se realimen ta tanto a través de la inversión en R&D, como a través del learning-by-doing. En este contexto, Jung et al (2000) concluyen que el sistema energético y las emisiones de CO 2 se encuentran estrechamente relacionados con el cambio estructural en los países en desarrollo, que asimismo viene determinado por los tres factores mencionados.…”

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Curva de Kuznets ambiental: la validez de sus fundamentos en países en desarrollo

Zilio

2012

Cuadernos de Economía

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Curva de Kuznets ambiental: la validez de sus fundamentos en países en desarrollo

Zilio

2012

Cuadernos de Economía

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“…Industrialization, combined with scientific and technological progress, leads to modernization and to a series of processes (e.g. rural migration to urban areas, improvements of living conditions in cities) driving urbanization (Jung et al 2000), and allowing countries to deal with their environmental problems through technological innovations.…”

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“…A rich discussion on economic growth and convergence provided the economic background for the series of assumptions on the long-term convergence of income (as measured by GDP per capita) found in the scenario literature (Fisher et al 2007, their Section 4.2). Second, by following the development path of industrialized countries, developing countries reduce their environmental problems through technological innovations associated with decreasing carbon intensity (Jung et al 2000;Stern 2003, Bertinelli & Strobl 2004.…”

Section: Emissions and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the MT; although the environmental impacts of economic growth increase in early stages of development and affluence (measured by income per capita), impacts stabilize and then decline as economies mature through structural change or modernization (Gibbs 2000, Jung et al 2000, Stern 2003, Bertinelli & Strobl 2004). This process is depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, also known as the environ-mental Kuznets curve (EKC).…”

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Development and greenhouse gas emissions deviate from the ‘modernization’ theory and ‘convergence’ hypothesis

Lankao¹,

Nychka²,

Tribbia³

2008

Clim. Res.

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Projections of future climate change partly depend on the assumptions made for future emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). These emissions are typically represented through an emissions scenario that posits a particular trajectory of development for the global society over the time of the projection. Since GHG emissions have a substantial impact on climate change, a relevant issue is what theories provide a good framework for addressing the drivers of GHG. We address 2 key research questions in this context: (1) Are carbon emissions attributable to structural change? If so, is it necessary to focus on the trajectories of carbon intensity or also on total emissions? (2) Does the development path of developing countries follow that of industrialized nations (convergence hypothesis) or is it suppressed in some areas and augmented in others due to world hierarchy and heterogeneity? Two development theories that have been applied to understand the drivers of GHG emissions are the modernization theory (MT) and the world economy theory (WET). In this paper, we use a statistical cluster analysis of economic data at the country level to test these theories and explore the convergence hypothesis with respect to GDP and GHG emissions. Results show no evidence of convergence among countries' welfare and emissions in the near term as a consequence of the MT. These results suggest that caution should be exercised in using the MT as basis for developing future emissions scenarios and that more attention should be paid to the WET.

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Doomed to fail? A call to reform global climate governance and greenhouse gas inventories

Herman

2024

Int Environ Agreements

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Commitments to emissions reductions following the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement have proliferated. Though it is promising that 145 countries have declared a net-zero emissions target, with 33 enshrining this goal into law, comparison of country-level emissions inventories can only be effectively carried out with uniform and consistent data. The extent to which greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory comparison is possible, and the ancillary climate governance implications, are the motivation for this article. Based on time-series correlation analyses over 32 years and 43 Annex-I countries, we uncover issues that are likely to inveigh against country-country comparison of GHGs—with the potential to weaken climate governance systems that are based mainly on emissions inventory tracking. First, the Global Warming Potentials (GWPs)—which convert each respective GHG into carbon equivalents (CO2-e), and are revised with each IPCC report—are not immediately or consistently integrated into GHG inventories. Second, GHGs apart from carbon dioxide, based on the data analysis, do not appear to be tracked uniformly. Should comparison of emissions remain a cornerstone of global climate governance, an overhaul of country-level GHG inventories is called for, specifically to enable effective reporting and tracking of GHGs apart from only carbon dioxide.

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Structural Changes in Developing Countries and Their Implication for Energy-Related CO2 Emissions

Cited by 29 publications

References 4 publications

Curva de Kuznets ambiental: la validez de sus fundamentos en países en desarrollo

Curva de Kuznets ambiental: la validez de sus fundamentos en países en desarrollo

Development and greenhouse gas emissions deviate from the ‘modernization’ theory and ‘convergence’ hypothesis

Doomed to fail? A call to reform global climate governance and greenhouse gas inventories

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