Emission Embodied in International Trade and Its Responsibility from the Perspective of Global Value Chain: Progress, Trends, and Challenges

Boya Zhang, Shukuan Bai, Yadong Ning, Tao Ding and Yan Zhang
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Boya Zhang: Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Shukuan Bai: Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Yadong Ning: Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Tao Ding: School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Yan Zhang: Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-26

Abstract: In the context of economic globalization and production fragmentation, the boom in intermediate and processing trade has made EEIT (emission embodied in international trade) accounting and the recognition of its responsibility more and more complicated, and the drawbacks of traditional gross value statistics more and more conspicuous. The rapid development of global value chain theory in recent years has given rise to a decomposition framework of the trade flow in a country’s export, based on the global value chain, which offers new methods to study EEIT and allocate its responsibility. The combination of global value chain accounting and EEIT research can offer new ways to research EEIT transfer and allocate its responsibility. Utilization of this technique can help understand each country’s “common but differentiated responsibility” in emission reduction. Finally, aiming at the knowledge gaps in current analysis, this paper attempts to discuss the trends, and possible challenges, in research on EEIT, and its responsibility based on the global value chain theory.

Keywords: embodied emission; international trade; emission responsibility; global value chain; trade in value-added; input-output analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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