 Casting a long shadow: Demand-based accounting of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions responsibilityBrett Dolter and Peter A. Victor Ecological Economics, 2016, vol. 127, issue C, 156-164 Abstract: Canada is the only country to have ratified the Kyoto protocol and then withdrawn. Part of the justification for Canada's reluctance to commit to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions is the country's status as fossil fuel exporter. In this paper we use input–output analysis and the World Input–Output Database (WIOD) to ask whether Canada's contribution to global GHG emissions changes when calculated using a demand-based shadow emission approach that excludes GHG emissions created in the production of exports like fossil fuels, but includes emissions released to produce imports to Canada. We find that from 1995 to 2005 Canada's contribution to global emissions was lower using this demand-based GHG accounting approach than a production-based approach. From 2006 to 2009 however, increased imports from GHG-intensive trading partners like China meant that Canada's demand-based shadow emissions were higher than its production-based GHG emissions. Keywords: climate change policy; multi-region input–output analysis; Canada; greenhouse gas emissions; GHG accounting; GHG shadow; carbon footprint (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolec:v:127:y:2016:i:c:p:156-164 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.04.013 Access Statistics for this article Ecological Economics is currently edited by C. J. Cleveland More articles in Ecological Economics from Elsevier |
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