Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128575 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 458
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
Climate policy pledges and negotiations involve commitments about the reduction of emissions within national borders. However, the rise of global value chains has changed the nature of production and international trade, blurring the attribution of ultimate responsibility for emissions. This paper applies a novel method that examines the change in territorial emissions due to changes in energy intensity, supply chain participation, and domestic and foreign consumption. Our findings suggest that rising levels of domestic consumption are related to increased carbon dioxide emissions in both advanced and emerging economies. A substantial share of emissions growth in emerging economies is accounted for by higher participation in global production networks that serve expanding foreign consumption. However, even for economies that most rapidly integrated in global production networks, such as the People's Republic of China, rising domestic consumption accounts for the bulk of territorial emissions. Improved energy efficiency partially stemmed the spike in emissions from higher consumer demand.
Subjects: 
global multiregional input-output model
global value chains
structural decompositionanalysis
World Input-Output Database
JEL: 
D57
E01
F18
F64
Q56
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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