Carbon Responsibility and Embodied Emissions: Theory and Measurement

ISBN-13: 9780415470209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 128 str.

Rodrigues Joao

Opis

This book investigates environmental indicators accounting for indirect emissions (as embodied in international trade) within the framework of input-output analysis and introduces an indicator of environmental responsibility derived from consumer and producer responsibility, i.e. upstream emissions embodied in final demand and downstream emissions embodied in primary inputs.

A new estimation method for international inter-industry transactions is derived from the maximum entropy principle and is computed using a genetic optimization algorithm. This estimation method is then applied to databases on international trade and greenhouse gas emissions in order to report embodied emissions and emissions responsibilities for a global input-output model.

The topic of indirect emissions and their accounting is still relatively unexplored in environmental economics and this groundbreaking new book will help to redress this balance.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Accounting Indirect Emissions  3. Carbon Indicators  4. Carbon Responsibility  5. Multi-Regional IO Model  6. Carbon Responsibility of World Regions  7. Discussion

O autorze

João F. D. Rodrigues is currently a Researcher at the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. Alexandra P.S. Marques is currently a MIT Portugal Program PhD student at IST in the area of Sustainable Energy Systems. Tiago M. D. Domingos is an Assistant Professor at the Environment and Energy Scientific Area, DEM, IST, and a Researcher at IN+.