Will economic restructuring in China reduce trade-embodied CO2 emissions?

Energy Economics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 204-212

  Qi, Tianyu ^a,b   Winchester, Niven ^b   Karplus, Valerie J ^b   Zhang, Xiliang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis; Embodied CO2 emissions; Multi regional input output analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING; EMBODIED CO; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS; POLICY OBJECTIVES; REDUCED PRODUCTION; TWELFTH FIVE YEARS;

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MACHINERY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION TAX;

CHINA; EUROPE; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892851963     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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