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Analysis of Influencing Factors of Embodied Carbon in China's Export Trade in the Background of Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality

Journal

SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14063308

Keywords

carbon peak; carbon neutrality; export trade; embodied carbon; Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index

Funding

  1. General Project of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning [2021BGL014]
  2. Youth Project of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning [2021EJB006]

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The study found that the change in export scale is the most influential factor affecting the embodied carbon of China's export trade, followed by carbon emission intensity, and the least impact is from changes in the export structure. The expansion of export scale has caused the growth of trade embodied carbon, while the decline in carbon intensity would slow down the growth of trade embodied carbon.
Since China's reform and opening up, especially after its accession to the World Trade Organization, its foreign trade has achieved fruitful results. However, at the same time, the extensive foreign trade growth model with high energy consumption and high pollution has also caused a rapid increase in carbon emissions. There is a large amount of embodied carbon emissions in the export trade. In order to achieve the strategic goals of Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality', and at the same time build a green trading system to achieve coordinated development of trade and the environment, it is of great significance to study embodied carbon emissions and how to decouple them with China's foreign trade. This paper uses the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index method to decompose the influencing factors of the embodied carbon in China's export trade in order to study the impact of three factors: export scale, export structure, and carbon emission intensity. The results show that the change in export scale is the most important factor affecting the embodied carbon of China's export trade, and the expansion of export scale has caused the growth of trade embodied carbon. Carbon emission intensity is the second influential factor, and the decline in carbon intensity would slow down the growth of trade embodied carbon, while changes in the export structure have the smallest impact on trade embodied carbon. The high carbonization of the overall export structure will cause growth of trade embodied carbon, but the tertiary industry has seen some improvement in the export structure, which could facilitate the decline of trade embodied carbon.

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