Title: Chinese CO2 Emission Flows Have Reversed Since the Global Financial Crisis

Speaker: 米志付博士。米志付博士，现为英国伦敦大学学院巴特莱特建设与项目管理学院终身研究员，中国经济学优秀博士论文获得者，SCI期刊Journal of Cleaner Production （影响因子5.715）副主编。研究方向为气候变化经济学和能源政策。近五年在Nature Communications（影响因子12.124）等期刊发表SCI/SSCI论文20余篇，其中ESI高被引论文4篇，ESI热点论文2篇。一篇论文被SCI期刊Applied Energy评为2016年高被引原创论文。多次受邀参加联合国会议（联合国可持续发展大会，巴西，2012；联合国气候变化谈判大会，秘鲁，2014；联合国气候变化谈判大会，摩洛哥，2016）。此外，还担任Applied Energy (SCI)，Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (SCI)，Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (SSCI)等期刊客座编辑。

Abstract: This study seeks to estimate the carbon implications of recent changes in China’s economic development patterns and role in global trade in the post-financial-crisis era. We utilised the latest socioeconomic datasets to compile China’s 2012 multiregional input-output (MRIO) table. Environmentally extended input-output analysis and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) were applied to investigate the driving forces behind changes in CO2 emissions embodied in China’s domestic and foreign trade from 2007 to 2012. Here we show that emission flow patterns have changed greatly in both domestic and foreign trade since the financial crisis. Some economically less developed regions, such as Southwest China, have shifted from being a net emission exporter to being a net emission importer. In terms of foreign trade, emissions embodied in China’s exports declined from 2007 to 2012 mainly due to changes in production structure and efficiency gains, while developing countries became the major destination of China’s export emissions.