The Research On The Embodied Carbon Of China’s Export Trade And The Influencing Factors

International trade is a pattern of global resource allocation, trade makes the worldwidedistribution of a variety of products, however, production always accompanied by energy inputs andcarbon emissions, that is, any products of international trade must be accompanied by theinternational transfer of carbon emission. From the "United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change" in1992to the "Kyoto Protocol" in2005and the "Copenhagen" agreement in2009,the international community has been making unremitting efforts to the problem of greenhouse gasemission, one important issue is the size of each country’s emission right and obligation, that is, theworldwide allocation of total carbon emissions.Based on the input-output model, a non-competitive comparable price input-output table isconstructed and the RAS method is used to extend the missed years in this paper, then the size of theembodied carbon of China’s exports is calculated out. Main conclusions are:(1) Embodied carbonemissions of China’s export trade is increasing year by year, from2.6million tons in1995to858million tons in2008, but the growth rate is slowing.(2) China’s embodied carbon emissions in exportaccount for20%to40%of the total emissions.(3) Embodied carbon exports are concentrated in thesecondary industry, especially in five industries of the secondary industry.On this basis and using the method of SDA, the embodied carbon in the export trade is brokendown into three factors: energy efficiency, technical indicator, scale indicator. And the influencingdegree of each factor on the embodied carbon is measured. It is showed that:(1) In most years, energyefficiency reduced the embodied carbon export, the technical indicator and the scale indicatorpromoted the embodied carbon export.(2) Among the three factors, the scale indicator has the biggestimpact; the impact of energy efficiency is unstable; while technical indicator has the least impact.Relevant policy proposals to reduce the embodied carbon emission in exports are then putforward finally in this paper.