Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis

Mi, Zhifu, Meng, Jing, Guan, Dabo, Shan, Yuli, Song, Malin, Wei, Yi-Ming, Liu, Zhu and Hubacek, Klaus (2017) Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis. Nature Communications, 8. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

This study seeks to estimate the carbon implications of recent changes in China’s economic development patterns and role in global trade in the post-financial-crisis era. We utilised the latest socioeconomic datasets to compile China’s 2012 multiregional input-output (MRIO) table. Environmentally extended input-output analysis and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) were applied to investigate the driving forces behind changes in CO2 emissions embodied in China’s domestic and foreign trade from 2007 to 2012. Here we show that emission flow patterns have changed greatly in both domestic and foreign trade since the financial crisis. Some economically less developed regions, such as Southwest China, have shifted from being a net emission exporter to being a net emission importer. In terms of foreign trade, emissions embodied in China’s exports declined from 2007 to 2012 mainly due to changes in production structure and efficiency gains, while developing countries became the major destination of China’s export emissions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2017 00:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 16:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65110
DOI:	10.1038/s41467-017-01820-w

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