Incorporating jurisdiction issues into regional carbon accounts under production and consumption accounting principles

Christa Jensen (), Stuart McIntyre, Max Munday () and Karen Turner
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Christa Jensen: West Virginia Univeristy
Max Munday: Cardiff University
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Christa D. Court

No 1012, Working Papers from University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics

Abstract: Despite increased public interest, policymakers have been slow to enact targets based on limiting emissions under full consumption accounting measures (such as carbon footprints). This paper argues that this may be due to the fact that policymakers in one jurisdiction do not have control over production technologies used in other jurisdictions. The paper uses a regional input-output framework and data derived on carbon dioxide emissions by industry (and households) to examine regional accountability for emissions generation. In doing so, we consider two accounting methods that permit greater accountability of regional private and public (household and government) final consumption as the main driver of regional emissions generation, while retaining focus on the local production technology and consumption decisions that fall under the jurisdiction of regional policymakers. We propose that these methods permit an attribution of emissions generation that is likely to be of more use to regional policymakers than a full global footprint analysis.

Keywords: pollution attribution; regional economy; input-output analysis; Wales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C67 Q01 Q53 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2010-08
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Journal Article: Incorporating Jurisdiction Issues into Regional Carbon Accounts under Production and Consumption Accounting Principles (2011)
Working Paper: Incorporating jurisdiction issues into regional carbon accounts under production and consumption accounting principles (2010)
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