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China's embodied CO 2 emissions: Based on UV tables

  • Shulin Li*
  • , Zhongying Qi
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

UV tables, rather than input-output table adopted in most literature, are used to analyze the embodied CO 2 emissions of China in this paper. This method can avoid overestimating the embodied emission coefficients, the key factor to estimate the total emissions. Based on the assumption of "emissions avoided by imports" (EAI), we calculated China's emissions embodied within products manufactured domestically (EEP) and those within products consumed domestically (EEC) in 1997, 2002 and 2007. The result shows that all of EEP exceeded EEC in the three years. The diffences (EEB) were 575.85, 627.30 and 1834.12 million tons, being 17.15%, 17.16% and 27.20% of EEP respectively. It means approximate 1/6∼1/4 of per unit CO 2 manufactured in China was consumed "purely" by other countries, also called "carbon leakage". Furthermore, we built a fixed effects model to detect the factors influcing the emission coefficients. It is found that technical progress will be helpful to decrease the coefficients, meanwhile, the total emissions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Resources and Sustainable Development II
Pages3337-3343
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event1st International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection, ICEEP 2012 - Hohhot, China
Duration: 23 Jun 201224 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume524-527
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection, ICEEP 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHohhot
Period23/06/1224/06/12

Keywords

  • Carbon dioxide embodied emissions
  • Carbon leakage
  • Emissions avoided by imports
  • UV tables

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