China's “Exported Carbon” Peak: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications
By Zhifu Mi, Jing Meng, Fergus Green, D. Coffman, D. Guan. 2018
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Over the past decade, China has entered a “new normal” phase in economic development, with its role in global trade flows changing significantly. This study estimates the driving forces of Chinese export‐embodied carbon emissions in the new normal phase, based on environmentally extended multiregional input‐output modeling and structural decomposition analysis. We find that Chinese export‐embodied CO2 emissions peaked in 2008 at a level of 1,657 million tones. The subsequent decline in CO2 emissions was mainly due to the changing structure of Chinese production. The peak in Chinese export‐embodied emissions is encouraging from the perspective of global climate change mitigation, as it implies downward pressure on global CO2 emissions. However, more attention should focus on ensuring that countries that may partly replace China as major production bases increase their exports using low‐carbon inputs.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering
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- Does China's carbon emissions trading policy improve the technology innovation of relevant enterprises? (2019, unknown): “In 2015, China further proposed to lower carbon intensity by 60–65% by 2030, compared with the 2005 level(4) (Mi et al., 2016). In addition, in 2014, China and United States issued the Joint Statement on Climate Change.(5) In this statement, China committed to attain the CO2 emissions peak by 2030 a”
- China's Energy Consumption in the New Normal (2018, background): “This is largely because China relied largely on heavy industries and exported large volumes of low value-added but energy-intensive products, such as textile and metallurgy products (Mi, Meng, Guan, Shan, Song, et al., 2017; Mi et al., 2018).”
- Carbon emissions of cities from a consumption-based perspective (2019, unknown): “To evaluate CBA, the calculation of CO2 emissions embodied in the final demand requires the emission intensity vector E, which is composed of the coefficient that indicates the CO2 emissions per unit of industrial output ei in economic sector i; thus, the CO2 emissions in CBA can be estimated as fol”