This paper considers a recently developed consumption-based carbon emissions database
from which emissions calculations are made based on the domestic use of fossil fuels plus
the embodied emissions from imports minus exports, to test directly for the importance of
trade in national emissions. Comparing such consumption-based emissions data to
conventionally-measured territory-based emissions data produces several useful
conclusions. For example, most countries are net importers of carbon emissions—their …

This paper considers a recently developed consumption-based carbon emissions database
from which emissions calculations are made based on the domestic use of fossil fuels plus
the embodied emissions from imports minus exports, to test directly for the importance of
trade in national emissions. The People's Republic of China (PRC) alone is responsible for
over half the global outflows of carbon via trade. The econometric estimations—which
focused on a panel of 20 Asian countries—determined that:(i) trade flows were significant for …