Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis

MI, Zhifu, Klaus HUBACEK, Jing MENG, Dabo GUAN, Yuli SHAN, Malin SONG, Yi-Ming WEI and Zhu LIU. Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis. Nature Communications. London: Nature Publishing Group, 2017, vol. 8, November, p. nestránkováno, 10 pp. ISSN 2041-1723. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01820-w.

Basic information

• Original name: Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis
• Authors: MI, Zhifu (156 China), Klaus HUBACEK (40 Austria, belonging to the institution), Jing MENG (156 China), Dabo GUAN (156 China), Yuli SHAN (156 China), Malin SONG (156 China), Yi-Ming WEI (156 China) and Zhu LIU (156 China).
• Edition: Nature Communications, London, Nature Publishing Group, 2017, 2041-1723.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50200 5.2 Economics and Business
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 12.353
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/17:00095368
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01820-w
• UT WoS: 000416229000002
• Keywords in English: Bussiness and industry; climate-change mitigation; economics
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

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.

Links

• GA16-17978S, research and development project: Name: Zranitelnost a ekonomicko-energetický nexus v odvětvích hospodářství - historická, Input-Output a CGE analýza (Acronym: VE2NEX)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation