Carbon and health implications of trade restrictions.

Nat Commun

Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Nijenborg 6, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Published: October 2019

In a globalized economy, production of goods can be disrupted by trade disputes. Yet the resulting impacts on carbon dioxide emissions and ambient particulate matter (PM) related premature mortality are unclear. Here we show that in contrast to a free trade world, with the emission intensity in each sector unchanged, an extremely anti-trade scenario with current tariffs plus an additional 25% tariff on each traded product would reduce the global export volume by 32.5%, gross domestic product by 9.0%, carbon dioxide by 6.3%, and PM-related mortality by 4.1%. The respective impacts would be substantial for the United States, Western Europe and China. A freer trade scenario would increase global carbon dioxide emission and air pollution due to higher levels of production, especially in developing regions with relatively high emission intensities. Global collaborative actions to reduce emission intensities in developing regions could help achieve an economic-environmental win-win state through globalization.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821914PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12890-3DOI Listing

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