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Economic Input-Output Analysis of China's CO2 Emissions
Abstract
China, as the biggest GHG emitter and the largest developing country, has been urged
by international society to take responsibilities for reducing GHG, especially in
the post-Kyoto commitment period. Currently, the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) assigns the responsibility to parties who produce the GHG,
using the production-based GHG emissions inventories. However, some scholars argue
that if consumption-based GHG emissions inventories were used, China would be less
responsible for GHG emissions because GHG emissions embedded in exporting products
directly contribute to its total emissions. This paper analyzes China’s CO2 emissions
in 2007 using Economic Input-Output (EIO) method, and finds that China’s domestic
emissions make up a large proportion of total emissions, and export-embodied emissions
accounts for 15% of domestic emissions. What’s more, results of production-based accounting
method are different from results of consumption-based accounting method. These two
different methods mainly impact the emissions from regions that belong to eastern
China. If China attempts to implement environmental policies to achieve the emissions
reduction target, different regional characteristics need to be considered.
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A, Rouna (2013). Economic Input-Output Analysis of China's CO2 Emissions. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6798.Collections
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