176
Sato ( 2014 ) found that the lion’s share of global carbon emissions emb odied in trade
is concentrated in a relatively small number of product categories of traded goods
(amongst the top ten in 2006 were motor spirit (gasoline/petrol), steel, aluminium,
motor vehicles, ships/boats and Portland cement). This suggests that focusing trade
and mitigation policies on these products may be an effective strategy to tackle at
least the pressing issue of global warming.
Acknowledgements I thank Angela Druckman and Roland Clift from the University of Surrey,
UK, for the invitation to contribute this chapter and for their helpful comments.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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trade – Global material extraction and consumption between 1995 and 2005. Global
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Chen, Z.-M., & Chen, G. Q. (2013). Virtual water accounting for the globalized world economy:
National water footprint and international virtual water trade. Ecological Indicators, 28 , 142–
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Sato ( 2014 ) found that the lion’s share of global carbon emissions emb odied in trade
is concentrated in a relatively small number of product categories of traded goods
(amongst the top ten in 2006 were motor spirit (gasoline/petrol), steel, aluminium,
motor vehicles, ships/boats and Portland cement). This suggests that focusing trade
and mitigation policies on these products may be an effective strategy to tackle at
least the pressing issue of global warming.
Acknowledgements I thank Angela Druckman and Roland Clift from the University of Surrey,
UK, for the invitation to contribute this chapter and for their helpful comments.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
References
Alsamawi, A., Murray, J., & Lenzen, M. (2014a). The employment footprints of nations:
Uncovering master-servant relationships. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 18 (1), 59–70.
doi: 10.1111/jiec.12104 .
Alsamawi, A., Murray, J., Lenzen, M., Moran, D., & Kanemoto, K. (2014b). The inequality footprints of nations: A novel approach to quantitative accounting of income inequality. PloS One,
9 (10), e110881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110881 .
Andrew, R. M., Davis, S. J., & Peters, G. P. (2013). Climate policy and dependence on traded
carbon. Environmental Research Letters , 8 (3). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034011 .
Arto, I., & Dietzenbacher, E. (2014). Drivers of the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Environmental Science & Technology, 48 (10), 5388–5394. doi: 10.1021/es5005347 .
Arto, I., Genty, A., Rueda-Cantuche, J. M., Villanueva, A., & Andreoni, V. (2012). Global resources
use and pollution: Volume 1 – Production, consumption and trade (1995–2008) . Joint Research
Centre Technical Reports. Publications Offi ce of the European Union, Luxembourg. Retrieved
February 23, 2015, from http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=5860
Arto, I., Roca, J., & Serrano, M. (2014). Measuring emissions avoided by international trade:
Accounting for price differences. Ecological Economics, 97 , 93–100. doi: 10.1016/j.
ecolecon.2013.11.005 .
Baldwin, R. (2013, July 10). Misthinking globalisation . Keynote Lecture by Richard E. Baldwin,
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 21st international inputoutput conference of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA). Kitakyushu, Japan.
Retrieved February 23, 2015, from http://www.iioa.org/Conference/21st/conference.html
Barrett, J., Peters, G., Wiedmann, T., Scott, K., Lenzen, M., Roelich, K., & Le Quéré, C. (2013).
Consumption-based GHG emission accounting: A UK case study. Climate Policy, 13 (4), 451–
470. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2013.788858 .
Bergmann, L. (2013). Bound by chains of carbon: Ecological–economic geographies of globalization. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103 (6), 1348–1370. doi: 10.1080/00
045608.2013.779547 .
Bruckner, M., Giljum, S., Lutz, C., & Wiebe, K. S. (2012). Materials embodied in international
trade – Global material extraction and consumption between 1995 and 2005. Global
Environmental Change, 22 (3), 568–576. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.011 .
Chen, Z.-M., & Chen, G. Q. (2013). Virtual water accounting for the globalized world economy:
National water footprint and international virtual water trade. Ecological Indicators, 28 , 142–
149. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.07.024 .
T. Wiedmann