Trends and drivers of China's embodied carbon emissions in global value chains.

Accurately measuring the embodied carbon emissions (ECE) in global value chains (GVCs) and identifying their key drivers is vital for formulating targeted mitigation policies in the context of GVCs. However, few studies have considered the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI)-related GVCs. To fill this gap, this study utilizes an inter-country input-output model and a decomposition framework for carbon emissions to measure the ECE in GVCs related to China during 2000-2018.

Reassessing the embodied carbon emissions in China's foreign trade: a new perspective from the export routes based on the global value chain.

A new route perspective measure based on the global value chain (GVC) distinguishes the embodied emission transfer destinations while concurrently considering the transfer process and GVC embedding position. This study applies this measure to reassess the characteristics of China's foreign trade embodied emissions and their impacts on global emissions. The results show that: (1) China's domestic embodied emission exports are mainly concentrated in manufacturing and dominated by final goods exports and simple GVC routes.

Estimating the environmental and employment impacts of China's value-added trade from the perspective of value chain routes.

This study aims to evaluate the environmental and employment impacts of China's value-added trade using the gross exports decomposition method and balance of avoided factor content. The major findings are that China's value-added trade overall leads to increases in global emissions and employment, which are mainly affected by the characteristics of China's exports. However, China's imports indirectly promote global emissions reductions and have a significant driving effect on foreign employment.

Comprehensive analysis of carbon emissions, economic growth, and employment from the perspective of industrial restructuring: a case study of China.

Industrial restructuring is a significant measure for low-carbon transition. In principle, carbon emissions can be effectively reduced by limiting the output of high-emission sectors; however, the socio-economic effects of the sectors should also be considered. Moreover, owing to the limitations of the method or data, the interactions between households and production sectors have been neglected in the study of industrial restructuring, resulting in an incomplete and potentially biased understanding of the role of households.