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From TFA: " For example, China now produces more CO2 emissions than the U.S., the EU, and Japan combined... (And no, this is not because of outsourcing, as you
by dash2 5y ago
From TFA: " For example, China now produces more CO2 emissions than the U.S., the EU, and Japan combined... (And no, this is not because of outsourcing, as you can see by looking at the trade-adjusted emissions numbers.)" Link to: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
In particular, from that page, consumption-based CO2 emissions of the US have gone down since 2007.
- XCSme 5y agoHow can they track the CO2 cost of an imported product? For example, I buy many products from Amazon.de, but almost all of them are produced in China. Do they account for transferring the CO2 emission from the original country? What about all that packaging and transportation? Also, how do they know where all imported items come from? Many people buy from Alibaba or other Chinese websites which rarely declare the actual items inside delivered packages.
- dash2 5y agoPerhaps read the orig research to find answers to these questions. My guess is that they measure this at aggregate level (using e.g. national statistics on imports versus home consumption in each product category). Indeed, that would make more sense than trying to track this at individual level.