Decomposition Analysis of the Carbon Emissions of the Manufacturing and Industrial Sector in Thailand

Jaruwan Chontanawat, Paitoon Wiboonchutikula and Atinat Buddhivanich
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Jaruwan Chontanawat: Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
Paitoon Wiboonchutikula: Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Atinat Buddhivanich: Bureau of Industrial Sectors Development, Iron and Steel Institute of Thailand, 1st-2nd Fl., Bangkok 10110, Thailand

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-23

Abstract: Since the 1990s, CO 2 emissions have increased steadily in line with the growth of production and the use of energy in the manufacturing sector in Thailand. The Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Method is used for analysing the sources of changes in CO 2 emissions as well as the CO 2 emission intensity of the sector in 2000–2018. On average throughout the period, both the amount of CO 2 emissions and the CO 2 emission intensity increased each year relative to the baseline. The structural change effect (effect of changes of manufacturing production composition) reduced, but the intensity effect (effect of changes of CO 2 emissions of individual industries) increased the amount of CO 2 emissions and the CO 2 emission intensity. The unfavourable CO 2 emission intensity change came from the increased energy intensity of individual industries. The increased use of coal and electricity raised the CO 2 emissions, whereas the insignificant change in emission factors showed little impact. Therefore, the study calls for policies that decrease the energy intensity of each industry by limiting the use of coal and reducing the electricity used by the manufacturing sector so that Thailand can make a positive contribution to the international community’s effort to achieve the goal of CO 2 emissions reduction.

Keywords: carbon emissions; decomposition; manufacturing sector; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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