More than half of China’s CO2 emissions are from micro, small and mediumsized enterprises
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00101140" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00101140 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261918312777" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261918312777</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.107" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.107</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
More than half of China’s CO2 emissions are from micro, small and mediumsized enterprises
Original language description
To date, the burden of CO2 emissions reductions has been largely confined to large enterprises in China. Using new data with firm ownership and size information included, we show that micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) produced 53% of China’s CO2 emissions in 2010. Detailed supply-chain analysis reveals that final demand for products made downstream by domestic-private MSMEs, along with exports made downstream by foreign-owned MSMEs, are the main drivers of China’s CO2 emissions. Most of these emissions occur upstream in the electricity and heat sector, which is mainly controlled by large, state-owned enterprises with the highest carbon intensity, and the non-metallic mineral sector, which consists of a very large number of domestic-private MSMEs with lower levels of enforcement of emissions regulations. Overall, MSMEs induced 65% of China’s CO2 emissions through their supply chains. Our conclusion is that understanding the role of firm size for China is important in developing emissions reduction policies: given the very high per-enterprise overhead of emissions trading systems, and the abundance of MSMEs, our results clearly favour taxation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-17978S" target="_blank" >GA16-17978S: Vulnerability and the Economy-Energy Nexus at the Sector Level: A Historic, Input-Output and CGE Analysis</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Applied Energy
ISSN
0306-2619
e-ISSN
1872-9118
Volume of the periodical
230
Issue of the periodical within the volume
November
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
712-725
UT code for WoS article
000448226600052
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85052864310