Local consumption and territorial based accounting for CO2 emissions

Kristinn Hermannsson and Stuart McIntyre

Ecological Economics, 2014, vol. 104, issue C, 1-11

Abstract: We examine the complications involved in attributing emissions at a local level. Specifically, we look at how functional specialisation within a city region can, via trade between sub-regions, create emissions interdependencies; and how this complicates environmental policy implementation in an analogous manner to international trade at the national level. For this purpose we use a 3-region emissions extended input–output model of the Glasgow City region (2 regions: city and wider city-region) and the rest of Scotland. The model utilises data on household consumption to account for consumption flows across sub-regions and plant-level data on emissions from electricity generation to augment the top-down disaggregation of emissions. This enables a carbon attribution at the sub-regional level, which is used to analyse emissions interdependencies within the city-region.

Keywords: CO2 emissions; Environmental accounting; Regional interdependency; Metropolitan area; City region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H73 Q56 R12 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Local consumption and territorial based accounting for CO2 Emissions (2013)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.04.020

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