Fernández-Amador, Octavio; Francois, Joseph F.; Oberdabernig, Doris A.; Tomberger, Patrick (22 November 2018). Economic growth, sectoral structures, and environmental methane footprints (WTI Working Paper 02/2018). Bern: World Trade Institute
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We analyze the impacts of economic growth on methane emissions per capita at the sectoral level for the period 1997-2014. We cover three stages of the supply chain, distinguishing between emissions embodied in production, final-production, and consumption. We investigate the effects of economic growth on two components of methane emissions per capita, namely methane emissions per value added and value added per capita. We uncover substantial heterogeneity across sectors. Economic growth led to expansions of economic activity in all sectors, but reduced the methane intensity of sectoral value added. In sectors that experienced pronounced reductions in methane intensity, economic growth did not strongly affect emissions per capita. However, in the absence of methane-intensity gains, economic growth raised emission per capita substantially.
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Working Paper |
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Division/Institute: |
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute 10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation |
UniBE Contributor: |
Fernandez-Amador, Octavio, Francois, Joseph, Oberdabernig, Doris Anita, Tomberger, Patrick |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology |
Series: |
WTI Working Paper |
Publisher: |
World Trade Institute |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pablo Rahul Das |
Date Deposited: |
08 Mar 2019 15:15 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:26 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.127208 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/127208 |
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