Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounting with capital stock change highlights dynamics of fast-developing countries

  • Zhan-Ming Chen,
  • Stephanie Ohshita,
  • Manfred Lenzen,
  • Thomas Wiedmann,
  • Magnus Jiborn,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Leo Lester,
  • Dabo Guan,
  • Jing Meng,
  • Shiyun Xu,
  • Guoqian Chen,
  • Xinye Zheng,
  • JinJun Xue,
  • Ahmed Alsaedi,
  • Tasawar Hayat,
  • Zhu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05905-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Traditional carbon accounting attributes gap between consumption- and production-based emissions to international trade. The authors develop a dynamic model that incorporates capital stock change and find it improves estimates for fast-developing countries.