Global Sustainability Accounting—Developing EXIOBASE for Multi-Regional Footprint Analysis

By Richard Wood, Konstantin Stadler, T. Bulavskaya, S. Lutter, S. Giljum, A. de Koning, J. Kuenen, H. Schütz, José Acosta-Fernández, Arkaitz Usubiaga and 6 more. 2014

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Measuring progress towards sustainable development requires appropriate frameworks and databases. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) is undergoing continuous refinement with these objectives in mind. In SEEA, there is a need for databases to encompass the global dimension of societal metabolism. In this paper, we focus on the latest effort to construct a global multi-regional input-output database (EXIOBASE) with a focus on environmentally relevant activities. The database and its broader analytical framework allows for the as yet most detailed insight into the production-related impacts and "footprints" of our consumption. We explore the methods used to arrive at the database, and some key relationships extracted from the database.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives (2017, background): “Among these MRIOs, there is an ongoing research on developing a time series Supply-Use MRIOs for the period between 1995 and 2014 [153].”
Spatially explicit assessment of water embodied in European trade: A product-level multi-regional input-output analysis (2016, methodology): “A detailed explanation of the construction of EXIOBASE is provided by Wood et al. (2015).”
EXIOBASE 3: Developing a Time Series of Detailed Environmentally Extended Multi‐Regional Input‐Output Tables (2018, methodology): “Providing a time series of EE MRIO tables addresses the main shortcoming of the previous versions of EXIOBASE (Wood et al. 2015), which were only available for two distinct snapshots of the global economy (2000 and 2007).”
Mapping the carbon footprint of EU regions (2017, methodology): “The database facilitates environmental analysis by incorporating increased detail of environmentally important processes (Wood et al 2014, Stadler et al 2014).”
Solid Waste and the Circular Economy: A Global Analysis of Waste Treatment and Waste Footprints (2017, methodology): “0 of the EXIOBASE covers the use of 80 natural resources, 170 emissions to nature, and 36 different waste treatment routes for 43 countries and 5 rest of the world (RoW) regions, at a resolution of 163 economic sectors and 200 products by country for the reference year 2007 (Wood et al. 2015; Tukker”
Ten Years of Sustainability (2009 to 2018): A Bibliometric Overview (2018, background): “16 Global sustainability accounting-Developing EXIOBASE for multi-regional footprint analysis [36] Wood, R.”
Metal supply constraints for a low-carbon economy? (2018, methodology): “For activities other than electricity production and (road) transportation, we used EXIOBASE, a detailed global multi-regional environmentally extended Input-Output (IO) model (Tukker et al., 2013; Wood et al., 2014, 2015; de Koning et al., 2014, 2016).”
Environmental Impacts of Capital Formation (2018, methodology): “Data Used EXIOBASE The EXIOBASE database (version 2.2) is based around detailed EE SUTs, trade linked in order to follow global supply chains (Wood et al. 2015).”
Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions (2019, methodology): “counting (Wiedmann and Barrett, 2013; Kitzes, 2013), and in this work, we use the EXIOBASE 3 dataset (Stadler et al., 2018; Wood et al., 2015).”
Growth in Environmental Footprints and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Resource Efficiency Indicators from EXIOBASE3 (2018, methodology): “The question of aggregation error has been investigated through the work of Steen-Olsen and colleagues (2014) across multiple models, and in the case of EXIOBASE (de Koning et al. 2015; Wood et al. 2014; Bouwmeester and Oosterhaven 2013; Stadler et al. 2014).”
The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability (2020, background): “EXIOBASE has a high sectoral detail and a wide range of environmental and social satellite accounts (Wood et al., 2015), and version 3.”
The Global MRIO Lab – charting the world economy (2017, methodology): “The basic idea here is to assemble a collectively exhaustive union set from themost disaggregated parts of various disparate databases (for comparison, see approaches used in EXIOBASE, Section 3.1 in Wood et al., 2015).”