Examining the global environmental impact of regional consumption activities — Part 1: A technical note on combining input–output and ecological footprint analysis

By K. Turner, Manfred Lenzen, T. Wiedmann, J. Barrett. 2007

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In recent years there have been a number of attempts to develop a more comprehensive approach to the issue of measuring resource use and/or pollution generation embodied in trade flows, including contributions that combine input–output techniques and Ecological Footprint analysis. In this two-part paper we describe how to enumerate the resource and/or pollution content of inter-regional and inter-national trade flows (Part 1) and we present a literature review of recent methodological and empirical developments (Part 2). It is straightforward in principle to extend the basic input–output approach to capture international trade flows. However, in practice, problems of data availability and compatibility, and of computability of extended input–output matrices, mean that simplifying assumptions are generally applied, but with the implications of these assumptions often not made fully explicit. What appears to be absent from previous applications is an account of the analytical method by which Ecological Footprints should ideally be estimated in an international input–output accounting analysis. This allows an explicit analysis of the problems that prevent the application of the full method and identification of the most appropriate short-cut methods in a transparent way. The objective of this paper is to provide such an account.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering

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Living up to expectations: Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for UK households (2015, background): “The latter, in turn can be derived from environmentally extended, multiregional input-output models (Druckman and Jackson, 2009; Turner et al., 2007; Wiedmann et al., 2007).”
INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS AND CARBON FOOTPRINTING: AN OVERVIEW OF APPLICATIONS (2009, neutral): “For simpliﬁcation, generalised IOMs have frequently assumed domestic and import production to be identical and performed the analysis based only on national input–output tables and environmental accounts (the ‘single-region assumption’, see Turner et al., 2007; Wiedmann et al., 2007a).”
Global Sustainability Accounting—Developing EXIOBASE for Multi-Regional Footprint Analysis (2014, background): “While regional IO analysis has been around for some time [3–7], its use in the calculation of global environmental footprints [8,9] and its relevance to climate policy issues, particularly with regard to carbon leakage [10–13], has significantly advanced the field’s development in the last decade.”
“Rebound” Effects from Increased Energy Efficiency: A Time to Pause and Reflect (2013, positive): “Speciﬁcally,IOmultiplier analysis is ideal for examining energy and/or pollution embodied throughout industrial supply-chains (see Turner et al., 2007, for the interregional IO multiplier method which is also commonly employed in global environmental “footprint” studies).”
Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for UKhouseholds (2012, background): “The latter, in turn can be derived from environmentally extended, multiregional input-output models (Druckman and Jackson, 2009; Turner et al., 2007; Wiedmann et al., 2007).”
Responsibility and trade emission balances: An evaluation of approaches (2010, methodology): “This concept can be appropriately calculated by applying multi-regional input-output models (Bicknell et al., 1998; Wiedmann et al., 2006; Turner et al., 2007).”
Companies on the Scale (2009, methodology): “Wiedmann et al., Companies on the Scale 363 Wiedmann and colleagues (2007d) suggest that multiregion input−output (MRIO) models in particular could be used to calculate ecological footprints embodied in international trade (see also Turner et al. 2007; Wiedmann et al. 2007e).”
CO2 emissions embodied in China's exports from 2002 to 2008: A structural decomposition analysis (2011, methodology): “Environmental impacts embodied in trade are usually quantified using the EIO analysis (Turner et al., 2007), a well-established method dating back to Leontief’s groundbreaking work in the 1930s (Leontief, 1951,1986).”
A CARBON FOOTPRINT TIME SERIES OF THE UK – RESULTS FROM A MULTI-REGION INPUT–OUTPUT MODEL (2010, background): “These issues and possible practical solutions have been discussed in detail previously by some of the authors (Lenzen et al, 2004 ; Turner et al, 2007 ).”
China’s provincial CO2 emissions embodied in international and interprovincial trade (2012, methodology): “Input–output analysis has recently become popular in the context of carbon footprint calculations (Turner et al., 2007; Wiedmann et al. 2007; Minx et al., 2009; Wiedmann, 2009; Wiedmann et al. 2011).”
The carbon footprint of UK households 1990–2004: A socio-economically disaggregated, quasi-multi-regional input–output model (2009, neutral): “MRIO models present even greater data challenges than conventional EIO models, and are often limited in the number of sectors (Huppes et al. 2006; Tukker et al. 2006; Turner et al. 2007).”
CALCULATING ENERGY-RELATED CO2 EMISSIONS EMBODIED IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE USING A GLOBAL INPUT–OUTPUT MODEL (2012, background): “…See, for example, Ahmad and Wyckoff, 2003; Davis and Caldeira, 2010; Hertwich and Peters, 2009; Lenzen et al., 2004; Nakano et al., 2009; Nansai et al., 2008; Nijdam et al., 2005; Peters and Hertwich, 2006, 2008a, 2008b; Turner et al. 2007; Wiedmann, 2009a, 2009b; Wiedmann et al., 2007, 2008.”