Mi, Z;
Meng, J;
Green, F;
Coffman, DD;
Guan, D;
(2018)
China's "Exported Carbon" Peak: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications.
Geophysical Research Letters
, 45
(9)
pp. 4309-4318.
10.1029/2018GL077915.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | China's "Exported Carbon" Peak: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2018GL077915 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077915 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2018. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | emission transfers, exports, China, multiregional input‐output, structural decomposition analysis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047413 |
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