PMID- 34649322
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211018
LR  - 20211018
IS  - 1095-8630 (Electronic)
IS  - 0301-4797 (Linking)
VI  - 300
DP  - 2021 Dec 15
TI  - The impacts of international trade on global greenhouse gas emissions: A thought 
      experiment based on a novel no-trade analysis.
PG  - 113836
LID - S0301-4797(21)01898-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113836 [doi]
AB  - Trade has been substantially influencing regional economic development, 
      environmental sustainability, and human well-being. Enabled by the decomposition 
      analysis, pollution haven hypothesis or "no-trade" scenarios (NTSs), the effects 
      of trade on global/national social-economic-environmental development have been 
      revealed. However, major limitations (e.g., using with-trade economic structures 
      or neglecting price differences) existed in previous studies, and thus made the 
      previous assessments of trade's effects unsatisfactorily. This study develops a 
      novel NTS that addresses the existing limitations, and further applies it to 
      estimate the effect of trade on global economic development and greenhouse gas 
      (GHG) emissions. We show that current international trade benefits the global 
      economic growth but with a consequence of more GHG emissions compared with the 
      NTS. The hypothetical production in small countries (e.g., Luxembourg or Japan) 
      would be more constrained by the production factors (e.g., land) under the NTS, 
      compared with those factor-endowment countries (e.g., the United States or 
      India). For country-specific analysis, we find that today's developed countries 
      would have a substantial increase in their GHG emissions of clothing- and 
      service-related products under the NTS, whereas countries with net-export (e.g., 
      China or Brazil) would have less GHG emissions under the NTS. Enhancing future 
      global collaborations is vital, especially for small or resource-deficient 
      economies, if they are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
FAU - Wu, Zhaodan
AU  - Wu Z
AD  - Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China; Jiangsu Provincial 
      Collaborative Innovation Center of World Water Valley and Water Ecological 
      Civilization, Nanjing, 211100, China; One Belt & One Road African Research 
      Center, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213022, China.
FAU - Yang, Lan
AU  - Yang L
AD  - Fudan Tyndall Center and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle 
      Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science & 
      Engineering, Fudan University, 200438, Shanghai, China.
FAU - Chen, Qiyong
AU  - Chen Q
AD  - Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China.
FAU - Ye, Quanliang
AU  - Ye Q
AD  - Multidisciplinary Water Management, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University 
      of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, the Netherlands. Electronic address: 
      q.ye@utwente.nl.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210924
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Manage
JT  - Journal of environmental management
JID - 0401664
RN  - 0 (Greenhouse Gases)
RN  - 142M471B3J (Carbon Dioxide)
SB  - IM
MH  - Carbon Dioxide/analysis
MH  - Commerce
MH  - Economic Development
MH  - Greenhouse Effect
MH  - *Greenhouse Gases
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internationality
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Global supply chain
OT  - Greenhouse gas emissions
OT  - International trade
OT  - No-trade scenario
OT  - Thought experiment
EDAT- 2021/10/16 06:00
MHDA- 2021/10/21 06:00
CRDT- 2021/10/15 01:01
PHST- 2021/04/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/09/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/09/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/10/15 01:01 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/10/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/10/21 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0301-4797(21)01898-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113836 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Manage. 2021 Dec 15;300:113836. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113836. 
      Epub 2021 Sep 24.