Will Economic Restructuring in China Reduce Trade-Embodied CO2 Emissions?

We calculate CO2 emissions embodied in China’s net exports using a multi-regional input-output database. We find that the majority of China’s export-embodied CO2 is associated with production of machinery and equipment rather than energy-intensive products, such as steel and aluminum. In 2007, the l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qi, Tianyu, Winchester, Niven, Karplus, Valerie J., Zhang, Xiliang
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73903