Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises

Z Zhang, D Guan, R Wang, J Meng, H Zheng… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Enterprises are at the forefront of climate actions and multinational enterprises (MNEs)
engage in foreign direct investment, allowing them substantial influence over the entire …

Regional trade agreement burdens global carbon emissions mitigation

K Tian, Y Zhang, Y Li, X Ming, S Jiang, H Duan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have been widely adopted to facilitate international trade
and cross-border investment and promote economic development. However, ex ante …

Developing countries' responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries

B Meng, Y Liu, Y Gao, M Li, Z Wang, J Xue, R Andrew… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Carbon emissions associated with international trade are significant. The emergence of
complex global value chains (GVCs) in recent decades, in which a country can operate as …

Driving forces of China's provincial bilateral carbon emissions and the redefinition of corresponding responsibilities

W Wang, Y Hu, Y Lu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The carbon transfers caused by inter-provincial commodity flows account for about 35% of
the total carbon emissions in China. There are great differences between the production …

Germany's contribution to global carbon reduction might be underestimated–a new assessment based on scenario analysis with and without trade

R Li, Q Wang, X Wang, Y Zhou, X Han, Y Liu - … Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pollution paradise hypothesis states that international trade shifts pollution from
developed countries to developing countries, ignoring the positive effects that the …

[HTML][HTML] Macroeconomic exposure of developing economies to low-carbon transition

G Magacho, E Espagne, A Godin, A Mantes… - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
The low-carbon transition is a specific type of rapid structural change where low-emission
industries grow and high-emission industries decline due to deliberate policies, changing …

[HTML][HTML] Capital stranding cascades: The impact of decarbonisation on productive asset utilisation

L Cahen-Fourot, E Campiglio, A Godin… - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
A timely low-carbon transition will require a significant decline in fossil fuel production and
consumption. This in turn exposes the rest of economic sectors to the risk of reduced …

Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies

Z Zhang, J Li, D Guan - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the value chain carbon footprints of listed companies is essential for cumulative
climate actions and climate-efficient capital allocation. We trace the carbon emissions …

[HTML][HTML] Income-based US household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance

J Starr, C Nicolson, M Ash, EM Markowitz… - PLoS Climate, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Current policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and
mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5° C. It is clear that …

Weighing China's embodied CO2 emissions and value added under global value chains: Trends, characteristics, and paths

Q Li, S Wu, S Li - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
With the accelerated expansion of global value chains (GVCs), China occupies an
increasingly important position in the global production division system, which has important …