Global Value Chains and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Promotion or Hindrance?

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What contributes to the growth of China's embodied CO2 emissions? Incorporating the global value chains concept

Zhenguo Wang et al.

Summary: The study found that the growth of global value chains has led to an increase in China's embodied CO2 emissions, mainly driven by pure domestic demand. Trade-related activities contribute less than 30% to CO2 emissions, with the impact of traditional trade activities surpassing that of simple and complex global value chain activities.

APPLIED ECONOMICS (2022)

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Article Business

Spatial Effects of Participation in Global Value Chains on CO2 Emissions: A Global Spillover Perspective

Shujin Zhu et al.

Summary: The study found a positive spatial dependency between countries, with forward and backward GVC participation having different spatial spillover effects, with the latter causing most of the spillovers. The manufacturing sector generates a stronger spatial spillover than the service sector, particularly high-tech manufacturing industries.

EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE (2022)

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Article Environmental Sciences

Global value chains, technological progress, and environmental pollution: Inequality towards developing countries

Shuhong Wang et al.

Summary: The study aims to achieve the dual effects of technological progress and energy conservation and emission reduction in developing countries' participation in global value chains through research on GVC, technological progress, and environmental pollution. The research findings suggest the existence of a value chain threshold in developing countries, where technological progress may lead to an increase in pollution below the threshold but can reduce emissions above it. These results provide a theoretical basis and practical suggestions for developing countries to realize green development while participating in globalized value chains.

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2021)

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Article Economics

The changing role of global value chains in CO2 emission intensity in 2000-2014

Danyang Zhang et al.

Summary: The impact of global value chains on global and national emission intensities is complex and multi-faceted, with various factors at play. Research indicates that during the period from 2000 to 2014, global value chains were significantly more emission intensive than domestic production, but they were also the sole force improving global emission intensity, primarily due to contributions from emerging economies as well as the service and manufacturing sectors.

ENERGY ECONOMICS (2021)

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