The drivers of long-run CO2 emissions in Europe, North America and Japan since 1800

Henriques, Sofia Teives; Borowiecki, Karol Jan

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.11.005

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“…Technological progress plays an important role in reducing CO 2 emissions. Similar to the conclusions of this study, Henriques and Borowiecki [53] studied Europe, North America, and Japan. The research results show that technological progress has a long-term inhibitory effect on carbon emissions.…”

Section: Model Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

How Foreign Direct Investment Influences Carbon Emissions, Based on the Empirical Analysis of Chinese Urban Data

Zhou

Kong

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Sustainability

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The overabundance of carbon emissions is widely considered as a serious world problem. This paper focuses on analyzing the influence of economic factors on carbon emissions. Based on the traditional STIRPAT model, in terms of the "pollution haven hypothesis" and "pollution halo hypothesis", this paper employs the dynamic panel data model to explore the impact of economic elements such as economic growth, population, foreign direct investment and others on carbon emissions. Based on our research, China's urban carbon emissions do not follow the inverted U-shaped hypothesis of the traditional EKC curve theory and presents an inverted N-type. Moreover, current foreign direct investment increases the carbon emissions of Chinese cities due to the "implicit trade carbon". However, during the lagging period of one phase, it significantly reduced urban carbon emissions. In addition, the lag of one period of carbon emissions statistically led to carbon emissions at the current stage. According to the empirical analysis results, this paper proposes some reasonable improvements for carbon dioxide emission reduction, which have certain reference values for other developing countries facing similar carbon emission reduction challenges.

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How Foreign Direct Investment Influences Carbon Emissions, Based on the Empirical Analysis of Chinese Urban Data

Zhou

Kong

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Pompermayer Sesso et al (2020) conducted an SDA analysis and found that both the USA and the EU realized emissions reductions in 2000-2009; the emissions reductions in the USA were driven by the intensity effect, and those in the EU were driven by the technology effect. Henriques and Borowiecki (2017) applied an LMDI decomposition to study the drivers of CO 2 emissions changes in Europe, North America and Japan during 1800-2010; they found that the growth of GDP per capita and population was the main driver of emissions growth, while energy intensity improvement through technological progress was the main offsetting driver. Ahmad et al (2016) studied the relationship between CO 2 emissions and energy consumption and economic development in India, and found that promoting energyefficient technology to reduce energy consumption could help India reduce CO 2 emissions.…”

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Drivers of global and national CO₂ emissions changes 2000–2017

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Understanding the drivers of CO 2 emissions changes is useful in supporting future mitigation. This study applies a log-mean divisia index decomposition to assess four drivers of CO 2 emissions changespopulation, income, energy intensity and carbon intensityin 138 countries worldwide over the period 2000-2017. At the global level, income and population are the main drivers of increased emissions over time, with contributions of 116% and 60% to global CO 2 emissions changes, respectively. Energy intensity is the key mitigation driver, with a contribution of −80%. Although carbon intensity increased CO 2 emissions overall over the period 2000-2017 with a contribution of 4%, it has started to reduce emissions in recent years. China, the United States of America, the European Union, India and Russia are the five regions responsible for most changes in global emissions. The five regions together contribute −73% of the energy intensity effect, and China's income contribution is 83% in relation to the total of 116%. At the national level, in 2017, CO 2 emissions returned to below 2000 levels in 62% of Annex I (developed) countries but increased in 88% of non-Annex I (mostly developing) countries. Among the 35 countries realizing CO 2 emissions reductions, 24 were driven primarily by energy intensity, six by carbon intensity, three by economic recession, and one by population decrease. Among the 103 countries with increasing CO 2 emissions, 63 were driven primarily by income, 26 by population, nine by carbon intensity increase, and five by energy intensity increase. Our analysis emphasizes the necessity of considering differences in national development stages when formulating climate change mitigation policies. Key policy insights:. Over the period 2000-2017, at the global and national levels, CO 2 emissions increases were driven mainly by economic development and population growth, and mitigation was driven mainly by energy intensity improvement.. Improving energy intensity and carbon intensity is the key to mitigating CO 2 emissions. Carbon intensity is expected to play an increasing role in the future.. In over one-third of Annex I countries, CO 2 emissions increased from 2000 to 2017. To meet the Paris Agreement goals, Annex I countries will need to enhance mitigation ambition by further tapping the mitigation potentials of energy and carbon intensity.. In accordance with national circumstances, development needs and international support, non-Annex I countries should achieve low-carbon economic and energy transitions and peak CO 2 emissions as early as possible.

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“…If energy was defined more narrowly (excluding feed for non-working animals), then the energy embodied in trade would represent only 12% of Danish primary energy consumption. Historical energy balances that exclude the biological conversion from feed to food (Kander et al 2013;Henriques and Borowiecki 2017) would be unable to capture the importance of the energy resources associated with the Danish trade to the UK.…”

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“…However, while there are many historical studies that investigate the energy that is consumed within the borders of a nation (Csereklyei et al 2016;Gales et al 2007;Henriques and Borowiecki 2017;Kander et al 2013;Krausmann et al 2008;Rubio et al 2010), only some of them focus explicitly on physical trade flows (e.g. Gingrich 2011;Schandl and Schulz 2002) and even fewer (Kander 2002;Kander and Lindmark 2006) attempt to calculate historical energy or CO 2 emissions flows incorporated in trade.…”

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Fuelling the English breakfast: hidden energy flows in the Anglo-Danish trade 1870–1913

Henriques

Warde

2017

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The 1870-1914 globalization period had profound impacts on the international division of labour, with coalendowed countries specializing in the production of energyintensive manufacturing goods and others in the production of agricultural goods. This study analyses the environmental consequences of this specialization, by quantifying the flows of energy and hidden energy embodied in the bilateral trade between the UK, the industrial workshop of the world, and Denmark, a coal-poor country with an agricultural economy. We show that the transformations that occurred in Danish agriculture to meet the growing demand for breakfast foods in the UK required significant quantities of feed and coal. Denmark was a net importer of energy throughout the period and a net importer of hidden energy in 1870. However, by the end of this wave of globalization, Denmark had become a significant net exporter of hidden energy to the UK. This was due both to an increase in its land productivity and to the import of coal, grain and fertilizers from abroad.

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The drivers of long-run CO2 emissions in Europe, North America and Japan since 1800

Cited by 115 publications

References 36 publications

How Foreign Direct Investment Influences Carbon Emissions, Based on the Empirical Analysis of Chinese Urban Data

How Foreign Direct Investment Influences Carbon Emissions, Based on the Empirical Analysis of Chinese Urban Data

Drivers of global and national CO₂ emissions changes 2000–2017

Fuelling the English breakfast: hidden energy flows in the Anglo-Danish trade 1870–1913

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The drivers of long-run CO2 emissions in Europe, North America and Japan since 1800

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How Foreign Direct Investment Influences Carbon Emissions, Based on the Empirical Analysis of Chinese Urban Data

How Foreign Direct Investment Influences Carbon Emissions, Based on the Empirical Analysis of Chinese Urban Data

Drivers of global and national CO2 emissions changes 2000–2017

Fuelling the English breakfast: hidden energy flows in the Anglo-Danish trade 1870–1913

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