From:  glen.peters at cicero.uio.no
Subject: Chinese exports and climate change
Date: August 11, 2008

We have just published a new report that quantifies the carbon dioxide emissions from the production of exported products in China. We found that in 2005, one-third of China’s carbon dioxide emissions were due to the production of exports. This proportion has risen quickly, from 12 percent in 1987 and only 21 percent in 2002. These results beg the question of who should be held responsible for China’s immense growth in emissions, and importantly, how to encourage China to take quantified emission limitations in post-2012 climate policy.

The report is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.0… (subscription to Energy Policy required).

A report analyzing the changes in Chinese emissions more broadly from 1992 to 2002 can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es070108f (subscription required to Environmental Science and Technology).

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Glen Peters
Senior Research Fellow
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO)
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