The contribution of Chinese exports to climate change

Abstract

emissions have both benefits and costs, and must be carefully designed to achieve political consensus and equity. Whoever is responsible for these emissions, China's

A Decomposition Analysis of Embodied Energy Consumption in China’s Construction Industry

“…Different from traditional input-output tables, the data made a distinction of imports used for processing and for direct consumption. Therefore we do not need to make assumptions like some studies [7,12,13] that the proportion of the imported intermediate input from sector i to all other sectors is the same. Instead, we can immediately find imports of each sector and calculate the direct requirement coefficient matrix of imports (A m ) so that it can improve the accuracy of final results.…”

“…A m (I − A) −1 y can be divided into C d and C e , representing the intermediate inputs consumed domestically and be reexported after domestic processing respectively. This study adopts the EAI (Emissions Avoided by Imports) assumption as mostly other SIRO models [13,14] which represents that the emission factors of the exporting countries are the same as the domestic F d . The embodied energy in x m is represented as…”

Journey to world top emitter: An analysis of the driving forces of China's recent CO2 emissions surge

“…The core assumption of this method is to assume that every economic sector and final demand category uses imports in the same proportions since there is no import matrix available for China but only a column of imports. Further explanation to this approach can be found in our previous work [Weber et al, 2008].…”

“…Increased consumption was mainly driven by urban households and large capital investments until the early 2000s. Furthermore, Wang and Watson [2007] and Weber et al [2008] argued that China's export production for developed countries consumption is another important driver in contributing Chinese emissions increase, particularly since 2000.…”

A multi-regional input-output analysis of ozone precursor emissions embodied in Spanish international trade

“…Weber et al (2008), Marin et al (2012, Homma et al (2012), Dieztzenbacher et al (2012 or Sato (2012), but they are mainly focused on the greenhouse gas emissions or just on CO 2 emissions.…”