Arbeitspapier
Carbon emissions embodied in Russia's trade
According to current international climate change regime countries are responsible for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which result from economic activities within national borders, including emissions from producing goods for exports. At the same time imports of carbon intensive goods are not regulated by international agreements. In this paper emissions embodied in exports and imports of Russia were calculated with the use of inter-country input-output tables. It was revealed that Russia is the second largest exporter of emissions embodied in trade and the large portion of these emissions is directed to developed countries. The reasons for high carbon intensity of Russia's exports are obsolete technologies (in comparison to developed economies) and the structure of commodity exports. Because of large amount of net exports of carbon intensive goods the current approach to emissions accounting does not suit interests of Russia. On the one hand, Russia, as well as other large net emissions exporters, is interested in the revision of allocation of responsibility between producers and consumers of carbon intensive products. On the other hand, current technological backwardness makes Russia vulnerable to the policy of carbon protectionism, which can be implemented by its trade partners.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 149
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade and Environment
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Environment
- Subject
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global climate change
carbon emissions
virtual carbon
carbon intensity of trade
Russia's trade
input-output analysis
Kyoto protocol
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Makarov, Igor A.
Sokolova, Anna K.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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FIW - Research Centre International Economics
- (where)
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Vienna
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Makarov, Igor A.
- Sokolova, Anna K.
- FIW - Research Centre International Economics
Time of origin
- 2015
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