| The international trade of China developed rapidly since China entering into WTO,.In 2002,the establishment of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area was put on the agenda.The bilateral trade between China and ASEAN enjoyed a prosperous development.By 2011,ASEAN has surpassed Japan to become China’s third largest trading partner.However,when enjoying the enormous economic benefits brought by foreign trade,China has also witnessed a rapid increase in carbon emissions.China has become the largest carbon emitter.The warming of the global environment and the deteriorating environment in China have made China’s pressure on emission reduction unprecedentedly huge.Previous studies have proved that there is indeed a carbon transfer in China and developed countries,but trade between China and ASEAN is also huge.Therefore,it is of great significance to study whether carbon transfer exists between China and ASEAN.Based on the review of domestic and foreign literatures,this paper calculates the implied carbon emission and its influencing factors in the bilateral trade between China and ASEAN by using Multi-regional input-output(MRIO)model and SDA decomposition method.The empirical results show that there was a net export of carbon dioxide emissions between China and ASEAN.Although the carbon dioxide emissions imports from ASEAN is increasing year by year,the net export volume of hidden carbon is still an increasing trend.China actually takes some of its carbon emissions for ASEAN countries,especially for Singapore.Among the influencing factors,energy consumption effect is the main factor to reduce carbon dioxide emissions embodied in China-ASEAN trade.Scale effect is the largest drivers,input-output effect is not so significant.water and electricity supply industries,transportation industry,and the petroleum refining industry,they have the lowest energy efficiency but have a huge impact on the increase of embodied carbon export.However,using more low-carbon products helps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.In addition,structural effects have a significant impact on emissions of carbon dioxide in some industries,and the improvement of foreign trade structure has reduced emissions of carbon dioxide emissions such as quarrying and mining,and pharmaceutical industries.Finally,based on the empirical results,this paper believes that in order to achieve the emission reduction targets,maybe China should further improve energy efficiency,strengthen technological innovation,optimize export structure,and seek international support and cooperation. |
