Thailand’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions from production-based and consumption-based perspectives

Panittra Ninpanit, Arunima Malik, Takako Wakiyama, Arne Geschke and Manfred Lenzen

Energy Policy, 2019, vol. 133, issue C

Abstract: Over the past few decades, Thailand has been one of the highly open economies and one of the most successful countries in applying the export-led growth model. At the same time, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions released in Thailand tripled between 1990 and 2015. To examine how international trade plays a role in shaping Thailand’s CO2 emissions inventory, we compare emissions under both production-based and consumption-based accounting over 1990–2015 and disaggregate total CO2 emissions into traded and non-traded parts. We also use a multi-regional input-output database for performing a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) to investigate the factors contributing to changes in CO2 emissions. We find that Thailand continually stood out as a net carbon exporting country. CO2 embodied in exports accounted, on average, for 40% of domestically produced emissions. Our SDA results suggest that traded and non-traded emissions grew mainly due to increasing per-capita consumption in Thailand and abroad. The retarding effect from energy efficiency improvement was significant but not sufficient to reduce emissions.

Keywords: Structural decomposition analysis; Multi-regional input-output; CO2 emissions; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110877

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