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The Global Footprint of Sectors

Silva Merico, Joao Murilo LU (2021) EKHS35 20211
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Studies investigating the footprint of nations have reported significant carbon-leakage between countries and the need to track emissions responsibility under a consumption-based accounting to complement traditional production estimates. Nonetheless, these works have largely ignored the impact of consumption by sectors in generating greenhouse gas emissions, which remained estimated under a production-based system. This, on its turn, only reveals the direct emissions released by a sector, which may be producing goods that are inputs to other sectors, thus allowing some industries to conceal part of their emissions. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is to determine the footprint of sectors by taking stock of the pollution... (More)
Studies investigating the footprint of nations have reported significant carbon-leakage between countries and the need to track emissions responsibility under a consumption-based accounting to complement traditional production estimates. Nonetheless, these works have largely ignored the impact of consumption by sectors in generating greenhouse gas emissions, which remained estimated under a production-based system. This, on its turn, only reveals the direct emissions released by a sector, which may be producing goods that are inputs to other sectors, thus allowing some industries to conceal part of their emissions. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is to determine the footprint of sectors by taking stock of the pollution embedded in its input requirements in upstream paths in the value chain. The empirical part of this research used a Global Multi-Regional Input-Output table obtained from Exiobase 3. It includes 44 countries, 5 rest of the world regions and 200 sectors. The results provide a new contribution by estimating, for the first time, the footprint of highly detailed sectors at the global level. The findings introduce a different pattern of sectorial responsibility for emissions. (Less)
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author
Silva Merico, Joao Murilo LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS35 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Input-Output analysis, Sectors, Footprint, Consumption-based accounting.
language
English
id
9059506
date added to LUP
2022-06-28 10:15:15
date last changed
2022-06-28 10:15:15
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  abstract     = {{Studies investigating the footprint of nations have reported significant carbon-leakage between countries and the need to track emissions responsibility under a consumption-based accounting to complement traditional production estimates. Nonetheless, these works have largely ignored the impact of consumption by sectors in generating greenhouse gas emissions, which remained estimated under a production-based system. This, on its turn, only reveals the direct emissions released by a sector, which may be producing goods that are inputs to other sectors, thus allowing some industries to conceal part of their emissions. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is to determine the footprint of sectors by taking stock of the pollution embedded in its input requirements in upstream paths in the value chain. The empirical part of this research used a Global Multi-Regional Input-Output table obtained from Exiobase 3. It includes 44 countries, 5 rest of the world regions and 200 sectors. The results provide a new contribution by estimating, for the first time, the footprint of highly detailed sectors at the global level. The findings introduce a different pattern of sectorial responsibility for emissions.}},
  author       = {{Silva Merico, Joao Murilo}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Global Footprint of Sectors}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}