The Study On The Measurement And Influences Of The Embodied Carbon Emission In Sino-Japan Export Trade

Accompanied by the globalization of economy,international trade has made an increasingly significant impact on environment and international community has laid more emphasis on climate change.Therefore,mitigating the release of greenhouse gases has become the consensus of all countries.After the entry into WTO,China's economy developed sharply and energy consumption as well as pollution emission also increased rapidly,carbon emission in particular,making China face tremendous pressure in international society.As a major trading country,China's carbon emission ascends rapidly partly due to the huge demand of commercial and individual consumption in developed countries.Through international trade,consumer can transfer its environmental pollution related to consumption into other countries.As a consequence,major export countires,like China,should be responsible for carbon emission which originally be undertook by import country.Moreover,by way of international trade,China has shifted a considerable amount of carbon emission for other countries.Taking Japan as a research object,this thesis illustrates systematically the intangible carbon emission from China to Japan within a decade,from 2002 to 2012.The research methods in this thesis are also applicable to researches concerning with the intangibility of carbon issues between China and other trading partners.This thesis is divided into five chapters,analyzing the issue of carbon emission between these two countries from different perspectives.Chapter one is the introductory part,which introduces briefly the research background,significance,the research status of domestic and foreign scholars on intangible carbon emission.The framework,research methods as well as research novelty and demerits are also introduced in this part.The second Chapter is the theoretical basis of this thesis,explicating the exterior theories concerning with the intangiblity of carbon emission and elaborating the Pigu tax theory.Chapter Three is the main body part of this thesis.According to the researches of previous scholars,the quantity of intangible carbon emission by service trade is limited.Therefore,this thesis pays no attention to intangible carbon emission in service trade between China and Japan,merely focusing on the intangible carbon emission in exported goods from China to Japan.The clssification of industry in China's input and output table is consistent with the China Energy Statistical Yearbook.Based on their classification,this thesis divides the exporting sectors from China to Japan into 18 segement and combines the UN Comtrade trade data between China and Japan within the decade.Moreover,according to the input and output tables of 2002,2007 and 2012 in China Statistical Yearbook as well as the input and output tables of 2005 and 2010,this thesis predicts the intangible carbon emission within the decade through the analyzing the input and output model.Through this analysis,carbon omission datas of the whole year and of the 18 segments has been obtained.The results show that,during this period,Japan has transferred a large amount of carbon emission to China through the import of Chinese goods from China.At the same time,this thesis gains the changing trend within ten years through comparing and analyzing the amount of intangible carbon omission of different years and different sectors.Through comparing different sectors,this thesis divides the 18 sectors into high,medium and low carbon industry.Chapter Four deals with the analysis of contributing factors between China and Japan intangible carbon omission in this ten years on the basis of input and output model.In this part,the influence of four factors,including the intensity of carbon emission,production structure,export structure and export scale,is also discussed.The research present readers that the change between China and Japan mainly depends on the combining force of carbon emission intensity and export scale,with the former exerting negative influence and the later positive influence.This thesis further analyses the effect of these four factors in different time spans and in different sectors.Accordingly,this thesis succeeds in retrieving the effects of these four factors,which is beneficial to work out feasible measures and solutions to reduce the intangible carbon emission of exported goods.The last Chapter draws a conclusion from chapter three and four.Then according to research results,the author presents readers with several suggestions and shed light on future orientations of government policies.Firstly,government could encourage and motivate scientific input among traditional manufacturing sectors,innovate production technologies and enhance the level of manufacturing technology,thereby enhancing the effiency of energy utilizing and reduce carbon emission per unit of outcome.Secondly,optimize the export structure of manufacturing.The analysis of research results show that the change of trade structure changes poses both positive and negative influence on manufacturing sectors.Therefore,reducing the proportion of high carbon omission and high-consuming products contributes to the overall reduce of intangibel carbon omission from China to Japan.Thirdly,learn from the experience of developed countries,to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation.Learning from Japan in the energy saving and emission reduction experience,and actively prompting the introduction of CDM project are also feasible.Finally,actively participate in international climate negotiations,adhere to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.As a major exporting country,China transfers large amounts of intangible carbon emission through the exporting goods to Japan and other developed countries,therefore,ih international climate negotiations,China should assertively conform to the principle of common but differentiated so as to alleviate emission pressure in international society.