Analysis of changes in Dutch emission trade balance(s) between 1996 and 2007

Bram Edens, Roel Delahaye, Maarten van Rossum and Sjoerd Schenau

Ecological Economics, 2011, vol. 70, issue 12, 2334-2340

Abstract: In this paper we construct bilateral emission trade balances (ETB) for The Netherlands with 17 regions and compare results for 1996 and 2007 for three different greenhouse gasses. We establish a cross-sectional analysis of bilateral ETBs into a volume of trade, composition and technology effect. In order to analyze the driving forces of changes over time we perform a structural decomposition analysis of embodied import and export emissions. The main findings are that the embodied import emissions have increased by 37% whereas export emissions increased by only 3%, which is primarily driven by CO2. The 2007 bilateral balances are positive with OECD countries but negative with economies such as Russia, Africa and China. The analyses demonstrate that the worsening of the ETB is to a large extent caused by the changing composition of trade: the Dutch economy increasingly exports clean products and imports dirty products.

Keywords: Emission trade balance (ETB); Consumption-based accounting; Structural decomposition analysis; Cross-sectional analysis; Standardization; The Netherlands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.07.006

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