Does Forest Industries in China Become Cleaner? A Prospective of Embodied Carbon Emission

Lanhui Wang, Zichan Cui, Jari Kuuluvainen and Yongyu Sun
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Lanhui Wang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Zichan Cui: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Jari Kuuluvainen: Department of Forest, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Yongyu Sun: Research Institute of Resource Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming 650224, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-11

Abstract: Forests and the forest products industry contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass, and by fabricating products that substitute other, more greenhouse-gas-emission-intensive materials and energy. This study investigates primary wood-working industries (panel, furniture, pulp and paper) in order to determine the development of carbon emissions in China during the last two decades. The input–output approach is used and the factors driving the changes in CO 2 emissions are analyzed by Index Decomposition Analysis–Log Mean Divisia Index (LMDI). The results show that carbon emissions in forest product industries have been declining during the last twenty years and that the driving factor of this change is the energy intensity of production and economic input, which have changed dramatically.

Keywords: embodied carbon; forest industry; energy intensity; energy structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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