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The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain

Meng, J; Hu, X; Chen, P; Coffman, DM; Han, M; (2020) The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain. Journal of Environmental Management , 268 , Article 110701. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110701. Green open access

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Abstract

Reducing fossil fuel consumption is a top priority option for climate change mitigation, which requires collaborations of partners along the supply chain, such as energy suppliers, energy consumers and final consumers of goods and services. A comprehensive analysis of fossil fuel consumption is useful for policymakers to reduce demand but still absent. This study explores the national contribution to global energy consumption from different perspectives in the global supply chain and is designed to complement current energy reduction policies. For the developed countries, energy consumptions are stable from 2000 to 2014, while that of emerging countries almost doubled (e.g., China and India). Most of the developing countries are producers whose production-based and final production-based energy consumptions are higher than their consumption-based ones, except India after the global financial crisis. In contrast, the developed countries are consumers, whose consumption-based energy consumptions are higher. At the sectoral level, the service sector is the largest contributor to consumption- and income-based energy consumption. The analysis in this study can create opportunities for all the parties alongside the supply chain in reducing fossil fuel consumption.

Type: Article
Title: The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110701
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110701
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Inequality, Energy consumption, Production-based, Consumption-based, Income-based
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10098197
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