A Research On Embodied Carbon Emission In Chinese Textiles Exportation

The trend of global warming is becoming more and more serious, the emissions of greenhouse gases which carbon dioxide (CO2) gives priority is a global issue with wide attention and research. China is the superpower of CO2 emissions, bears enormous international pressure to reduce it, but China exists large Embodied Carbon Emission which is caused by the international trade, international trade gradually becomes the transfer support of CO2 emissions. Developed countries transfer high carbon industries to less developed areas, and then through the way of import goods and services to meet their products demand so as to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment. Due to the less developed areas is relatively backward production technology, low energy efficiency, to some extent this contributed to the global CO2 emissions. China is the big trading nation and produces a large number of embodied carbon emissions in the process of export, bearing a large part of the carbon emissions liability for other countries, China is not the sole responsibility for carbon emissions, developed countries did not assume the actual responsibility it should borne, but charged against the high-carbon emitting countries, this is not fair.China is a big country of textile industry and also a major exporter of textiles. Textiles is an important national livelihood industry, plays an important role in national economic development, while the textiles is a large export surplus embodied carbon sector which plays an important role in the growth of export embodied carbon. The purpose of this paper is a comprehensive analysis of the textiles’ development status and the textile industry’s environmental consumption, estimate the textile export embedded carbon, on this basis, analying how textile industry in the technical effect, structure effect, scale effect contribute on total export embodied carbon, in order to find the effect of inhibiting or facilitates, this paper also do the empirical analysis for the textiles in order to find some factors affecting carbon emissions and give some suggestions for the low carbon development of textiles, reducing embodied carbon emissions to the greatest extent, reducing the hidden carbon emission surplus.This paper mainly consists of five chapters:First, the first chapter introduces the international background and domestic background of putting up this issue, pointing out that to put forward the textile foreign trade embodied carbon study is under the low-carbon economy and international carbon reduction differentiated responsibilities angle. Then from environmental trade, the impact of international trade on embodied carbon emissions research and trade embodied carbon three aspects to review the existing research results. Then introduces the research methods, analytical framework, the paper’s innovation and deficiencies.The second chapter summarizes the status of the development of China’s textile industry. It is analyzed from two aspects:foreign trade situation, environmental conditions. Trade situation mainly include textile products exports, exports accounted for the proportion of China’s total exports and total world textile exports, international competitiveness of textile industry. Environmental conditions were analyzed mainly from the textile industry energy consumption structure, the textile industry CO2 emissions, textile industry CO2 emissions accounted for the proportion of China’s total emissions and other aspects.The third chapter is calculated on the textile trade embodied carbon, it is the main part of this chapter. First, the calculation method for the embodied carbon trade will be described, then estimates the embodied carbon of textiles" export and import, and analyze the results.The fourth chapter uses Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) decompose the impact of textile industry on total export carbon embodied in three aspects:scale effect, structure effect, technical effect, then from the perspective of the textiles to give reference on reducing export embodied carbon emissions; And using the econometric model to analyze the influence factors of the textile export embodied carbon.The fifth chapter summarizes this article and put forward my own views and opinions about the low carbon development of textiles.Innovation of this paper is that because textile industry has the largest trade surplus in embodied carbon of all the sectors, and therefore from this particular industry, analyzing the specific factors that influence carbon textile trade implied, and proposes targeted policy recommendations, which in order to reduce the country’s export embodied carbon has a positive meaning. And because of the limited research level and availability of data, I can not be in-depth and thorough study of each sector and I hope outstanding researchers can make up for this shortcoming of this article later.