The Impact of China-EU Trade on Climate Change

摘要：

International Trade has strong impacts on green house gas (GHG) emission and climate change. the trade between China and the European Union is critical to the global GHG reduction. The EU is committed to reduce its CO2 emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. However, if the EU reaches its emissions targets by importing CO2-intensive products from China or other developing countries, the goals will be pointless. The paper analyzes CO2 emissions embodied in China-EU trade during 1995-2006. The paper shows CO2 emissions embodied in China-EU trade were very imbalanced. The CO2 embodied in Chinas exports to the EU were 95.04Mt in 1995 and 532.35Mt in 2006. But the emissions in EUs exports to China were only 5.78 Mt in 1995 and 26.05Mt in 2006. The paper concludes that the present trend is unsustainable and leads to ever increasing trade distortions with environmentally counter-productive incentives. Policy responses are needed, first and foremost a continuous carbon footprint accounting system between the EU and China.

作者: Yang Laike Yan Yunfeng Jan Priewe

作者单位: School of Finance & Statistics, East China Normal University Shanghai, China School of Economics a School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics Beij School of Economics, University of Applied Science Berlin, Germany

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: International Conference on Management and Service Science(2011年第五届管理与服务科学国际会议 MASS 2011)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-4

在线出版日期: 2011-08-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）