Can China reduce the carbon emissions of its manufacturing exports by moving up the global value chain?

摘要

This study analyses whether embedding in the global value chain has an impact on the carbon emissions of China's exports. We develop a carbon decomposition model and use panel data for 14 manufacturing industries in China from 1995 to 2009 to empirically analyse the impact of China's exports on carbon emissions. Our results show that the GVC effect on China's carbon emissions embodied in manufacturing exports outweighs the scale, composition and technique effects.