Title ES tarptautinės prekybos tekstile ir rūbais įtaka globalioms anglies dioksido emisijoms /
Translation of Title EU textile and clothing international trade influence on global carbon dioxide emissions.
Authors Valodka, Ignas
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Pages 38
Keywords [eng] international trade ; CO2 emissions ; climate change ; textile and clothing sector
Abstract [eng] Globally, over the past few decades, researchers have focused on climate change and environmental pollution due to its impact on billions of human lives. Many countries are making efforts to comply with climate agreements. The EU plays a leadership role in fighting climate change. However, more and more authors agree that product flows in the complicated global supply chains might have significantly affected EU CO2 emissions. Inaccurate CO2 emission estimations might lead to negative consequences on climate change. There is a lack of research evaluating international trade impact on EU CO2 emissions at the sectoral level. Especially it is important to estimate highly polluted, high emission-intensive, and low-value production sectors, such as the textile and clothing (TC) sector. This dissertation solves this problem by proposing an alternative evaluation method based on the multi-regional input-output (MRIO) method, which allows to calculate and track all the CO2 emissions emitted in the TC global supply chain via international trade. The quantitative empirical research found significantly larger amounts of CO2 emissions in the EU TC sector comparing to traditional production-based estimations. Empirical research found 4 times more CO2 emissions in Germany. 75% of total consumed CO2 emissions in Germany were embodied in imports. International trade growth has a positive influence on EU CO2 emissions in the short term. In the long term, international trade has a lowering impact on CO2 emissions.
Dissertation Institution Kauno technologijos universitetas.
Type Summaries of doctoral thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2021