THE REGIONAL ROLES ALONGSIDE THE EVOLUTION OF CARBON TRANSFER STRUCTURE WITHIN CHINA: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE NATIONAL VALUE CHAIN

Shuyu Wang, Jie Wu and Guoxiang Xu
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Shuyu Wang: School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
Jie Wu: School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
Guoxiang Xu: School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China†Branch Center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai Social Survey and Research Center (SSSRC), Shanghai 200433, P. R. China

Climate Change Economics (CCE), 2022, vol. 13, issue 01, 1-31

Abstract: To strengthen the national efforts to meet Paris Agreement Targets, China has announced its carbon neutrality goal in 2020 and launched the national carbon market in 2021. Regional carbon emissions accounting is important for the allocation of regional mitigation targets and emission allowances in the policy-making of the national carbon market. This paper integrates the trade in value-added (TiVA) accounting method to comprehensively analyze the evolution of the carbon emissions transfer network in China along the national value chain (NVC) and further clarifies the changing roles of regions participating in the network during 2007–2017. The results indicate that the inter-regional carbon emissions transfer structure in China has changed from the pattern of “transferring from inland areas to developed areas†to a new pattern of a “carbon emissions transfer network with the Yangtze River Delta and the Central regions as pivots†. This paper provides insightful results for China to strike a balance between economic development and environmental governance among regions in achieving carbon neutrality.

Keywords: Carbon emissions transfer effects; national value chain (NVC); embodied emissions; trade in value-added (TiVA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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