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Article: Targeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma in China

TitleTargeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma in China
Authors
Issue Date2016
Citation
Nature Climate Change, 2016, v. 6, n. 2, p. 201-206 How to Cite?
AbstractInternational trade has become the fastest growing driver of global carbon emissions, with large quantities of emissions embodied in exports from emerging economies. International trade with emerging economies poses a dilemma for climate and trade policy: to the extent emerging markets have comparative advantages in manufacturing, such trade is economically efficient and desirable. However, if carbon-intensive manufacturing in emerging countries such as China entails drastically more CO 2 emissions than making the same product elsewhere, then trade increases global CO 2 emissions. Here we show that the emissions embodied in Chinese exports, which are larger than the annual emissions of Japan or Germany, are primarily the result of China's coal-based energy mix and the very high emissions intensity (emission per unit of economic value) in a few provinces and industry sectors. Exports from these provinces and sectors therefore represent targeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma by either improving production technologies and decarbonizing the underlying energy systems or else reducing trade volumes.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/334414
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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Zhu-
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Steven J.-
dc.contributor.authorFeng, Kuishuang-
dc.contributor.authorHubacek, Klaus-
dc.contributor.authorLiang, Sai-
dc.contributor.authorAnadon, Laura Diaz-
dc.contributor.authorChen, Bin-
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Jingru-
dc.contributor.authorYan, Jinyue-
dc.contributor.authorGuan, Dabo-
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-20T06:47:58Z-
dc.date.available2023-10-20T06:47:58Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.citationNature Climate Change, 2016, v. 6, n. 2, p. 201-206-
dc.identifier.issn1758-678X-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/334414-
dc.description.abstractInternational trade has become the fastest growing driver of global carbon emissions, with large quantities of emissions embodied in exports from emerging economies. International trade with emerging economies poses a dilemma for climate and trade policy: to the extent emerging markets have comparative advantages in manufacturing, such trade is economically efficient and desirable. However, if carbon-intensive manufacturing in emerging countries such as China entails drastically more CO 2 emissions than making the same product elsewhere, then trade increases global CO 2 emissions. Here we show that the emissions embodied in Chinese exports, which are larger than the annual emissions of Japan or Germany, are primarily the result of China's coal-based energy mix and the very high emissions intensity (emission per unit of economic value) in a few provinces and industry sectors. Exports from these provinces and sectors therefore represent targeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma by either improving production technologies and decarbonizing the underlying energy systems or else reducing trade volumes.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofNature Climate Change-
dc.titleTargeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma in China-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/nclimate2800-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-84955605966-
dc.identifier.volume6-
dc.identifier.issue2-
dc.identifier.spage201-
dc.identifier.epage206-
dc.identifier.eissn1758-6798-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000370963400024-

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