Abstract
The development of globalization has separated the production and consumption of products spatially, and the international trade of products has become a carrier of embodied carbon trade. This paper adopted the perspective of value-added trade to calculate the amount of embodied carbon trade of China from 2006 to 2015 and perform a structural decomposition analysis of the changes in China's embodied carbon trade. This study found that: (1) China's embodied carbon exports are much larger than its embodied carbon imports, and there are differences between countries. China imported the largest amount of embodied carbon from South Korea, and it exported the largest amount of embodied carbon to the United States. (2) The structural decomposition analysis shows that changes in the value-added carbon emission coefficient during the study period would have caused China's embodied carbon trade to decrease, and changes in value-added trade would have caused China's embodied carbon trade to increase. Therefore, countries trading with China need to strengthen their cooperation with China in energy conservation, emission reduction, and product trade. In order to accurately reflect China's embodied carbon trade, it is necessary to calculate embodied carbon trade from the perspective of value-added trade.
Highlights
With rapid economic growth, China’s consumption of various types of fossil energy has been increasing
(2) Using the structural decomposition method, this paper investigates the impact of factors such as value-added carbon emission coefficient and value-added trade on the changes in China’s embodied carbon import and export trade from 2006 to 2015
In order to analyze the country-to-country differences in China’s embodied carbon trade, this paper took as an example
Summary
China’s consumption of various types of fossil energy has been increasing. Consumption of fossil energy generates a large amount of CO2. Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest CO2 emission country [1, 2]. In order to reduce carbon emissions, the Chinese government promised to reduce carbon emission intensity by 40–45% in 2020 and by 60–65% in 2030 compared with 2005 [3]. The focus areas include but are not limited to the carbon emissions generated during the production of goods and the transfer of carbon emissions between countries that engage in trading products and services, that is, embodied carbon trade [4]. This paper takes China as an example to study embodied carbon trade
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