Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Korea and Japan and Its Transmission Via International Trade

Abstract Climate change and environmental policies are widely discussed, but much less is known about emissions embodied in goods traded internationally, and the distinction between emission producers and consumers. The carbon dioxide emissions embodied in international trade in Central European countries are subject to examination in this paper. As a result of industrial restructuring and environmental legislation, air pollution has improved significantly in Central European countries since the 1989 transition. On the other hand, economic growth has been accompanied by a rise in consumerism. Despite the increasing role of exports, the Visegrad group countries have become net importers of carbon dioxide emissions between 1995 and 2008. This seems to be the ‘standard trajectory’ of a country’s transition toward a more developed and consumption-oriented economy. The global patterns of carbon dioxide emissions embodied in manufacturing exports are also mapped, using network analysis and constructing ‘product space’. The analysis confirms that industrial re-structuring played an important role in lowering the production of carbon dioxide emissions in the Visegrad countries.

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Carbon dioxide emissions and international trade at the turn of the millennium

Ecological Economics ◽

10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.01.005 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 125 ◽

pp. 14-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Octavio Fernández-Amador ◽

Joseph F. Francois ◽

Patrick Tomberger

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

International Trade ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Turn Of The Millennium

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The Effects of Corruption, Renewable Energy, Trade and CO2 Emissions

Economies ◽

10.3390/economies9020062 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 62

Author(s):

Nuno Carlos Leitão

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Carbon Dioxide ◽

International Trade ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Least Squares ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Unit Root Test ◽

Renewable Energies ◽

Long Run

Corruption reflects a set of illegal activities that jeopardize the smooth functioning of economies, society, and climate and environmental issues. This article tests the relationships between economic growth, corruption, renewable energies, international trade, and carbon dioxide emissions using panel data for European countries, namely Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and Greece, from 1995–2015. As an econometric strategy, this research uses the panel fully modified least squares (FMOLS), panel dynamic least squares (DOLS), and panel two-stage least squares estimator (TSLS). Considering the variables utilized in the research and the panel unit root test, we observed that the variables are integrated I (1) in the first difference. The variables of corruption, economic growth, renewable energies, international trade, and carbon dioxide emissions are cointegrated in the long run, using the Pedroni and Kao residual cointegration test arguments. The methodology of Dumitrescu–Hurlin to test the causality between carbon dioxide emissions, corruption, economic growth, and renewable energy shows that there is unidirectional causality between carbon dioxide emissions and corruption and economic growth and corruption. The results suggest that the corruption index and economic growth have a statistically significant positive impact on carbon dioxide emissions. However, renewable energies and international trade reduce climate change and improve the environmental quality.

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Evaluating carbon dioxide emissions in international trade of China

Energy Policy ◽

10.1016/j.enpol.2009.10.014 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 613-621 ◽

Cited By ~ 201

Author(s):

Boqiang Lin ◽

Chuanwang Sun

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

International Trade ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions

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