Carbon emissions in countries that failed to ratify the intended nationally determined contributions: A case study of Kyrgyzstan

Yang, Pu, Cui, Can, Li, Lixu, Chen, Weijian, Shi, Yaping, Mi, Zhifu and Guan, Dabo (2020) Carbon emissions in countries that failed to ratify the intended nationally determined contributions: A case study of Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Environmental Management, 255. ISSN 0301-4797

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Abstract

The Paris Agreement aims to increase global participation in climate change actions, yet attentions are not equally given among countries. The knowledge gap remains in understanding the structure and drivers of the emission in small developing countries. Eighteen countries have failed to ratify their Intended National Determined Contributions (INDCs) as an officially recognized emission target. Among these countries, we chose Kyrgyzstan as a case to construct its emission inventories from both production-based and consumption-based perspectives and to identify the drivers of emission changes using structural decomposition analysis (SDA). The empirical results revealed that CO2 emissions in Kyrgyzstan depicted a wavelike rise from 2007 to 2015, whilst the production structure contributed to 14% of the production-based CO2 emission growth from 2012 to 2015. As a net emission importer, Kyrgyzstan transferred large quantities of CO2 emissions to China and Russia through imports. However, if all manufacturing imports were produced within Kyrgyzstan, the emission would be over five times compared to the current level. It is helpful to reduce global emissions for Kyrgyzstan to import goods from other countries whose carbon intensities are lower. Overall, this study highlights the need to focus on these countries' failure to ratify INDCs while calling the Paris Agreement to provide a better understanding and mitigation mechanism for these small developing countries.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: co2 emissions,co2 emissions inventory,cost,drivers,energy,embodied emission,inequality,input-output table,kyrgyzstan,structural decomposition analysis,trade,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2020 03:27
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 05:44
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73769
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109892

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