Value-added involved in CO2 emissions embodied in global demand-supply chains

Hongguang Liu, Klaus Lackner, Xiaomei Fan

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Abstract

Embodied carbon emissions research is an important branch of climate change study. Some scholars have noted the value-added chains associated with the carbon emissions embodied in international trade. But they have not covered the global scale and the entire demand-supply chains. This paper tries to investigate this issue and answer how much value-added is gained by countries, especially developing regions that are the main carbon emissions suppliers in the world, and how this value-added changed during 2000–2014, based on the multi-regional input-output table. The conclusions are, on a global average, the value-added gained per unit of carbon emissions embodied in the global demand-supply chain had increased, but it had not brought net value-added to developing regions but instead caused them a net loss of wealth, mainly because developing regions should pay more value-added for their increasingly external demand.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)76-100
Number of pages25
JournalJournal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volume64
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

Keywords

  • carbon emissions
  • demand-supply chain
  • embodied
  • global
  • value-added

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Water Science and Technology
  • General Environmental Science
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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