讲座预告|China’s carbon emissions in the new normal

讲座地点：25教学楼3层C教室

主讲人：米志付

主讲人简介：Dr. Zhifu Mi is a Research Fellow at Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London. His research focuses on climate change economics, energy policy and input-output analysis. He has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Communications. Nine of them were listed in the ESI highly cited papers, and three were listed in ESI hot papers. He was awarded the 2017 Best Early Career Article by Environmental Research Letters, and 2016 Highly Cited Original Paper by Applied Energy. His Doctoral thesis was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award on Economics Research in China. He was invited to write a review article entitled Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) for Climate Change for Oxford Bibliographies.

讲座内容：This s.tudy seeks to estimate the carbon implications of recent changes in China’s economic development patterns and role in global trade in the post-financial-crisis era. We utilised the latest socioeconomic datasets to compile China’s 2012 multiregional input-output (MRIO) table. Environmentally extended input-output analysis and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) were applied to investigate the driving forces behind changes in CO2 emissions embodied in China’s domestic and foreign trade from 2007 to 2012. Here we show that emission flow patterns have changed greatly in both domestic and foreign trade since the financial crisis. Some economically less developed regions, such as Southwest China, have shifted from being a net emission exporter to being a net emission importer. In terms of foreign trade, emissions embodied in China’s exports declined from 2007 to 2012 mainly due to changes in production structure and efficiency gains, while developing countries became the major destination of China’s export emissions.