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Targeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma in China
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- Liu, Z. (author)
- John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Davis, S. J. (author)
- University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
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- Feng, K. (author)
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Hubacek, K. (author)
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Liang, S. (author)
- School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Anadon, L. D. (author)
- John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Chen, B. (author)
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Liu, J. (author)
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Yan, Jinyue (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Framtidens energi,KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Guan, D. (author)
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States (creator_code:org_t)
- 2015-09-28
- 2016
- English.
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In: Nature Climate Change. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1758-678X .- 1758-6798. ; 6:2, s. 201-206
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- International 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.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
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Liu, Z.
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Davis, S. J.
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Feng, K.
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Hubacek, K.
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Liang, S.
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Anadon, L. D.
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Chen, B.
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Liu, J.
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Yan, Jinyue
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Guan, D.
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