Effects Of Carbon Emissions Transfer In China-Japan Trade

Since the Reform and Opening-up, China’s foreign trade is developing rapidly.The enormous scale of the export trade in our country has created a huge economicoutput and employment opportunities. At the same time, it brings a lot of energyconsumption and carbon emissions. Foreign trade’s effect on carbon emissions isbeing paid attention by the international society. With the continuous deepeningeconomic relations between China and Japan, both sides are becoming the veryimportant trade partner to each other. The current carbon emissions amount of Chinadoubles compared to ten years ago, while the carbon emissions of Japan is basically ina stable state. The research on whether the bilateral trade between the two countriesproduces carbon emissions transfer has important theoretical and practicalsignificance.Based on the Comparative Advantage Theory concerning environmental elements,Using the Input and Output method, LMDI and MATLAB software tools, we doempirical research on the effect of China-Japan’s trade on carbon emissions transfer.First of all, in consideration of the environmental elements, we discusstheoretically that the two countries’ trade comparative advantage could change.Because of lax environmental control, China has environmental comparativeadvantages, and exports environment-intensive products. Japan exportstechnology-intensive products.Secondly, this paper research empirically. Combining China and Japan’sinput-output table, import and export trade data and industry-classified energyconsumption data, By using input-output analysis method, this paper analyses theChina and Japan’s corresponding carbon emissions transfered amount caused byChina-Japan trade in1995,2000and2005; Using the method of LMDI analyzed theeffect degree of scale, composition and technique effect to Chinese and Japanesecarbon emissions transfer in a certain period. The results show that: China’s addedvalue of the total amount of carbon emissions caused by trade is more than Japan’s inthe three years, the fact is that there exists carbon emissions transfer from Japan toChina. Scale effect always has a positive influence on the transfered amount ofChinese and Japanese carbon emissions in the three years; the effect of compositionand technique to the transfered carbon emissions of China is from the positive influence to negative one, Japan and vice verse.Finally, according to the empirical results of this paper, we put forwardcorresponding policy Suggestions to cope with carbon emissions transfer from Japan.