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How 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 a
by XCSme 5y ago
How 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.