Unfolding the evolution of carbon inequality embodied in inter-provincial trade of China: Network perspective analysis

Zhu, Mingdong; Zhen, Zhao; Ye, Meng; Chen, Jindao; Yu, Zun; Meng, Conghui

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106884

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“…Trade carbon equity, focused on the relationship between economic benefits and carbon emission transfer embodied in regional trade, has become a hotspot in existing studies. ,,− Undeveloped countries/regions are usually disadvantaged in trade; they shoulder embodied carbon transfer from developed ones but obtain fewer economic benefits. , Based on China’s provincial data, Zhang et al found that carbon equity has worsened from 2007 to 2017, and the underdeveloped provinces with 20% total value-added shouldered 42.6% of total CO 2 emissions in 2017. Undeveloped regions produce pollution-intensive products due to the lack of technical and financial support for economic transformation.…”

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“…Previous studies have provided foundational research; however, the dimensions and measurement methods of carbon equity have been diverse and dispersed, − and the review of carbon equity is still a research gap. This makes it difficult to systematically measure carbon equity, let alone conduct further analysis of the influencing factors and promoting strategies.…”

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Promoting the Achievement of Carbon Neutrality Targets: Systematic Review of Research Dimensions and Measure Methods on Carbon Equity in China

Tian,

Pang

2024

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Carbon equity is the balance between carbon reduction responsibilities and development rights. The review of carbon equity in China can help it achieve carbon neutrality targets and provide valuable insights to other emerging countries. This study aimed to systematically sort, classify, compare, and prospect the research dimensions and measure methods for carbon equity. The research dimensions were first classified into intergenerational, regional, trade, and income carbon equity by literature analysis. Intergenerational carbon equity explores the balance of carbon emission rights among generations using integrated assessment models (IAM). Regional carbon equity analyzes the socioeconomic effect of regional carbon emission rights allocation by IAM or regional differences under a specific allocation assumption by the Theil index. Trade carbon equity studies the relationship between carbon emissions and economic benefit transfer embodied in inter-regional trade, which is more suitable for calculating by methods with comparable results, such as the optimized regional environmental inequality index. Income carbon equity investigates the carbon footprint heterogeneity among income groups by the carbon Gini coefficient. This paper further discusses potential research directions for each dimension. Notably, all research dimensions did not consider promoted strategies for carbon equity, which should be a priority for future studies.

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Section: Trade Carbon Equitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Promoting the Achievement of Carbon Neutrality Targets: Systematic Review of Research Dimensions and Measure Methods on Carbon Equity in China

Tian,

Pang

2024

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Formula (4) can be written as TCE B =c ̂LP B S B K B . From 2012 (period 0) to 2017 (period 1), the change of TCE B is shown in Equation (6).…”

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“…Over 70% of greenhouse gas (GHG) worldwide are caused by urban economic activities (Elmqvist et al, 2019). Climate change is a global issue Zhu et al, 2022), and to achieve the global goal of net zero emissions, cities must consider the carbon emissions of other economic systems caused by their consumption. Therefore, studying cross-system consumption-based carbon emissions (CBCE) of cities can recognize its driving effect on global carbon emissions.…”

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Carbon Emission Drivers and Critical Paths in the Interaction of the "Local-Domestic-International" Economic Cycle - A case study of Beijing

Li,

Wei,

et al. 2024

Advances in Management and Applied Economics

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It is crucial to study the carbon emissions worldwide induced by urban consumption activities. Taking consumption-oriented city Beijing as an example, we constructed a nested multi-regional input-output model (MRIO), and measured carbon emissions and value-added in local, domestic, and international systems. Furthermore, the structural decomposition analysis (SDA) and structural path analysis (SPA) was applied to analyze cross-system driving forces and key paths of carbon emission changes. The conclusions show: (1) Beijing's consumption leads to the highest carbon emissions in the domestic system but the highest value-added in the local system. There is spatial inconsistency in carbon emissions and value-added. (2) The intermediate commodity input-output effect (ICIOE) of intra-domestic provinces is the main driving factors contributing to the reduction of carbon emissions. In contrast, the ICIOE of inter-domestic provinces is the main factor leading to the rise. (3) In the top 10 types of key paths for Beijing’s consumption-based carbon emissions (CBCE) growth, electric power and construction sectors in domestic systems are key sectors. Chemical products and transport equipment in foreign systems are key sectors for Beijing’s CBCE decrease. Our findings suggest Beijing enhancing cross-system cooperation to achieve carbon reduction targets. JEL classification numbers: R15. Keywords: Consumption-based carbon emissions, Multi-regional input-output, Structural decomposition analysis, Structural path analysis.

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“…The relationship between energy supply and demand had an impact on the trade in capital and labor (Wiedmann and Lenzen, 2018), facilitating employment mobility and economic growth (Mireku et al, 2017), -likely because the economic benefits of carbon emissions imports were greater than those brought by exports (Sun et al, 2016;Zhu et al, 2022). Studies have shown that the impact of domestic trade on employment growth was three times greater than that of inter-national trade (Feenstra and Wei, 2010).…”

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Embodied carbon transfers and employment-economic spillover effects in China’s inter-provincial trade

Yang

Guo²,

O’Connor³

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Understanding the embodied carbon transfer in inter-provincial trade and its employment-economic spillover effects is of crucial value in achieving carbon equity management. Surprisingly, few studies have focused on the intrinsic relationship between embodied carbon, embodied GDP, and embodied employment in iinter-provincial trade and its equity implications. Based on the 2012 and 2017 multi-regional input-output tables, our study of inter-provincial trade in 30 Chinese provinces shows that: 1) net outflows of embodied carbon were concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin region and the eastern and southern coastal regions, while net inflows were in the central and northwestern regions; 2) embodied carbon, GDP, and employment were characterized by nearby transfer, complementary energy economy, and asymmetric transfers in and out; and 3) western provinces, which relied heavily on traditional energy and heavy chemical industries, gained a competitive disadvantage implying by the internal relationship between net transfers of embodied carbon, GDP, and employment. To mitigate the inequity of inter-provincial carbon trade, top-down climate goals must be aligned with bottom-up socio-economic incentives to achieve balanced regional development and improved public welfare.

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Unfolding the evolution of carbon inequality embodied in inter-provincial trade of China: Network perspective analysis

Cited by 31 publications

References 58 publications

Promoting the Achievement of Carbon Neutrality Targets: Systematic Review of Research Dimensions and Measure Methods on Carbon Equity in China

Promoting the Achievement of Carbon Neutrality Targets: Systematic Review of Research Dimensions and Measure Methods on Carbon Equity in China

Carbon Emission Drivers and Critical Paths in the Interaction of the "Local-Domestic-International" Economic Cycle - A case study of Beijing

Embodied carbon transfers and employment-economic spillover effects in China’s inter-provincial trade

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