Land-use emissions embodied in international trade.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
International trade separates consumption of goods from related environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change (together referred to as "land-use emissions"). Through use of new emissions estimates and a multiregional input-output model, we evaluated land-use emissions embodied in global trade from 2004 to 2017. Annually, 27% of land-use emissions and 22% of agricultural land are related to agricultural products ultimately consumed in a different region from where they were produced. Roughly three-quarters of embodied emissions are from land-use change, with the largest transfers from lower-income countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, and Argentina to more industrialized regions such as Europe, the United States, and China. Mitigation of global land-use emissions and sustainable development may thus depend on improving the transparency of supply chains.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Hong, C; Zhao, H; Qin, Y; Burney, JA; Pongratz, J; Hartung, K; Liu, Y; Moore, FC; Jackson, RB; Zhang, Q; Davis, SJ
Published Date
- May 2022
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 376 / 6593
Start / End Page
- 597 - 603
PubMed ID
- 35511968
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1095-9203
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0036-8075
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1126/science.abj1572
Language
- eng