Study On Embodied Carbon And Carbon Tariff Of China International Trade

With the rapid development of world economy, demand for energy is higher, es-pecially fossil fuels. The fossil fuels emit a lot of greenhouse gas which causes globalwarming. CO2is the most prominent one. Now the world has to face such Carbonemission issue.Base on the Input-Output analysis, the thesis uses the Microsoft Excel to calculatethe amount of embodied carbon of china international trade, especially the embodiedcarbon per value of china export;According to result obtained at the previous step, thethesis simulates how the GDP, export, employment, output of each industry and do-mestic commodity price of china change after European Union imposed carbon tariffon the china export, on the use of GTAP model developed by the Purdue University.The result shows that:32.1~34.0%of the carbon emission of the entire chinaproduction department is emitted by the export and6.9%~19.2%by the net export;while the embodied carbon per value of china export is more than that of china import,and is also more than that of china GDP. Such two pairs of number relationships re-veal that it is possible the polluting industries are transferred from the developedcountries to developing countries by international trade; China economy will be im-pacted in many aspects if European Union imposes carbon tariff on china export. Forexample, GDP of china maybe reduces0.0239%~0.0642%.In the end, the thesis proposes some policy suggestions of domestic and interna-tional, such as reducing the dependence on international trade, adjusting the compo-nent of product and energy, developing the low-carbon technology, attenting negotia-tion of environment, building up the carbon trade market and so on.