The Importance of Imports for Household Environmental Impacts

By G. P. Peters, Edgar G. Hertwich. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Structural analysis of international trade: Environmental impacts of Norway (2006, methodology): “The various sources of uncertainty are discussed in more detail in Peters and Hertwich (2006b).”
Tracing Primary PM2.5 emissions via Chinese supply chains (2015, background): “…to follow the production network from final demand through the domestic production processes and, finally, extract the critical paths that drive dominant life-cycle emissions (Lenzen 2002, Peters and Hertwich 2006a, Peters and Hertwich 2006b, Lenzen et al 2012, Oshita 2012, Kanemoto et al 2014).”
More or Better? A Model for Changes in Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions due to Higher Income (2010, background): “Regarding embodied emissions from trade, our approach also considers imports, which are of substantial importance for OECD countries (Peters and Hertwich 2008), amounting to as much as 70% for Switzerland (Jungbluth et al. 2007). The recommendation of Peters and Hertwich (2006) not to assume that im”
Responsibility and trade emission balances: An evaluation of approaches (2010, background): “…the RoW); Nijdam et al. (2005) analyzed the impacts of Dutch household consumption considering the Netherlands and three different world regions; Peters and Hertwich (2006a, 2006b) analyzed the environmental impacts of Norway’s final demand aggregating all its trading partners into seven…”
Relating the environmental impact of consumption to household expenditures: An input–output analysis (2009, methodology): “, Special Issue on Priorities for Environmental Product Policy.”
The carbon footprint of UK households 1990–2004: A socio-economically disaggregated, quasi-multi-regional input–output model (2009, background): “These results are in general agreement with those from other studies, such as Nijdam et al (2005), Peters and Hertwich (2006), and Tukker and Jansen (2006).”
The environmental effect of car-free housing: A case in Vienna (2008, methodology): “those connected to clothing and other consumer goods ( Peters and Hertwich 2006 ), but those emissions are not the focus of our study.”
THE LIFE CYCLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CONSUMPTION (2011, background): “Some analysts have adopted a steady-state assumption and assumed that one year’s investments are necessary and sufficient to sustain the production and consumption in that given year (Lenzen, 2001; Peters and Hertwich, 2006c).”
A CARBON FOOTPRINT TIME SERIES OF THE UK – RESULTS FROM A MULTI-REGION INPUT–OUTPUT MODEL (2010, methodology): “…the pros and cons of using purchasing power parity (PPP) or market exchange rate (MER) as a mean for currency conversion have been discussed (Peters and Hertwich, 2006a) and the difference between the two methods has been quantified in a couple of MRIO studies (Weber and Matthews, 2007;…”
Climate policy through changing consumption choices: Options and obstacles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (2014, unknown): “First, contrary to the production perspective, the consumption perspective includes the embodied emissions (Peters and Hertwich, 2006).”
China’s provincial CO2 emissions embodied in international and interprovincial trade (2012, background): “Input–output analysis (Leontief, 1941), widely used in the calculation of embodied CO2 emissions can be mainly divided into two types (Lin and Sun, 2010): single-regional IO model (Lenzen, 1998; Hertwich et al., 2002; Sánchez-Chóliz and Duarte, 2004; Kander and Lindmark, 2006; Peters and Hertwich,”