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