Environmental Impacts of the French Final Consumption

Laurent Meunier (), Frédéric Gilbert () and Eric Vidalenc ()
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Laurent Meunier: Economics Department of the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)
Frédéric Gilbert: Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
Eric Vidalenc: Economics Department of the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)

No 2015.06, Policy Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: In order to fight against climate change, ambitious targets have been set, such as decreasing carbon emissions by 75% in France compared to 1990. Yet, focusing on territorial impacts leads to overlook import-embedded impacts. As a matter of fact, French territorial greenhouse gases (henceforth GHG) emissions have slightly decreased since 1990, whereas consumption-based emissions have been shown to increase. This is why we focus in this paper on consumption-based emissions rather than territorial emissions. Moreover, our analysis is not carbon-emissions focused. Indeed, the following environmental impacts are taken into account: air acidification, photochemical oxidation and non-dangerous industrial wastes. This a first contribution. Secondly, we build a scenario of French households final consumption in 2030 aiming at decreasing its environmental impacts. Finally, a deep matrix algebra analysis gives us precious hints on the reliability of the results.

Keywords: input-output analysis; environmental externalities; scenario analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q40 Q53 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2015-09
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