International trade undermines national emission reduction targets: New evidence from air pollution

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-59

  Kanemoto, K ^a,b   Moran, D ^a,c   Lenzen, M ^a   Geschke, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Embodied emissions; Footprint; Input output; MRIO; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894349493     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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