Carbon Dioxide Emissions Embodied In Textile International Trade For China:An Input-output Analysis

Trading has great impact on environment and climate which has became the focus of international attention. Under the condition of open economy, developed countries tend to develop higher value-added industries, relying more on importing high energy consumption goods of developing countries. The current international greenhouse gas emissions inventory is based on territory responsibility which does not consider the difference between the domestic consumption and export demands. The imported goods from developing countries meets the requirements of developed countries, At the same time, reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases in the developed countries, while developing countries have to undertake the pollution responsibility.China’s textile export scale is expanding year by year, and growing significantly. Textile trade volume in2000was$28.77billion, reached$115.742billion in2012. Only in the textile trading, our country undertook too much carbon emissions liability for developed countries.Using the2002and2007input-output table of China, combined with textile products import and export trade data, we study about the character of carbon emissions and carbon transfer embodied in Chinese exported and imported textile goods trading. The result shows that:Chinese exported textile goods have higher carbon dioxide emissions intensity than other developed countries. China is a net export country in carbon emission.Main destination of exported carbon emissions is Asia. The United States, Japan and South Korea are the main beneficiaries for carbon emission export embodied in Chinese textile products. Main destination of imported textile carbon emissions is also Asia, and90.86%from Asia. South Korea is a major embodied carbon import of Chinese textiles products. Direct carbon dioxide emissions intensity and total carbon dioxide emissions intensity for Chinese textile products are very high. With technologies for energy-saving and emission-reduction applied in the middle processes in Chinese textile production, carbon emission reduction would be more effective.