Targeted opportunities to address the climate-trade dilemma in China

Liu, Z.John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States (författare)

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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.

Davis, S. J.University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States (författare)
Feng, K.Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States (författare)
Hubacek, K.Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States (författare)
Liang, S.School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States (författare)
Anadon, L. D.John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States (författare)
Chen, B.Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States (författare)
Liu, J.State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (författare)
Yan, JinyueMälardalens högskola,Framtidens energi,KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden(Swepub:mdh)jyn01 (författare)
Guan, D.Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (författare)
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United StatesUniversity of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Nature Climate Change: Springer Science and Business Media LLC6:2, s. 201-2061758-678X1758-6798

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