Research On Embodied Emission

China's extensive economic growth is based on environmental sacrifice. With china's economic growth, it shows a substantial increase in emissions trends and the environment is degrading. The pressure of'China's responsibility' from world is growing. In the past to determine a country's emissions are all on the point of responsibility for production, however, a large proportion of China's pollution is not produced to meet domestic consumption and emissions, but by foreign demand for exports to meet the emissions produced, it can be said through importing foreign pollution is passed to China, from the perspective of consumer responsibility to consider the issue of global pollution emissions in China will greatly reduce liability. Measured using the principle of consumer responsibility for China and other countries which are highly depend on foreign trade ane exporting labor-intensive and pollution-intensive products are the main responsibility seems more reasonable. In this paper we take carbon dioxide as the object of study, trying to reveal the carbon emission embodied in trade goods and which part of emissions belong to foreign transfer, and to develop a more reasonable mechanism for accountability of pollution emissions. A improved input-output model is developed to estimate the embodied carbon emission and carbon emission coefficient, and sub-sector analysis is applied. We find that international trade has a negative effect on China's environment and the net export embodied carbon emissions increased gradually. The embodied carbon emission is determined by carbon emission coefficient and trade scale, in which the expansion of international trade implied the main reason for the increase in carbon emissions. And we find that the carbon emission coefficients for 24 departments are effectively reduced, indicating that china has achieved some results on eliminating backward production capacity and improving energy efficiency.