Consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounting with capital stock change highlights dynamics of fast-developing countries

Chen, Zhan-Ming, Ohshita, Stephanie, Lenzen, Manfred, Wiedmann, Thomas, Jiborn, Magnus, Chen, Bin, Lester, Leo, Guan, Dabo, Meng, Jing, Xu, Shiyun, Chen, Guoqian, Zheng, Xinye, Xue, Jinj Jun, Alsaedi, Ahmed, Hayat, Tasawar and Liu, Zhu (2018) Consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounting with capital stock change highlights dynamics of fast-developing countries. Nature Communications, 9. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Traditional consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounting attributed the gap between consumption-based and production-based emissions to international trade. Yet few attempts have analyzed the temporal deviation between current emissions and future consumption, which can be explained through changes in capital stock. Here we develop a dynamic model to incorporate capital stock change in consumption-based accounting. The new model is applied using global data for 1995–2009. Our results show that global emissions embodied in consumption determined by the new model are smaller than those obtained from the traditional model. The emissions embodied in global capital stock increased steadily during the period. However, capital plays very different roles in shaping consumption-based emissions for economies with different development characteristics. As a result, the dynamic model yields similar consumption-based emissions estimation for many developed countries comparing with the traditional model, but it highlights the dynamics of fast-developing countries.

Item Type:	Article
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
Related URLs:	http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-01...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2018 15:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 19:37
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68283
DOI:	10.1038/s41467-018-05905-y

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