Author, as appears in the article.: Pie, Laia; Fabregat-Aibar, Laura; Saez, Marc
Department: Gestió d'Empreses
e-ISSN: 1996-1073
URV's Author/s: Fabregat Aibar, Laura / Pié Dols, Laia
Keywords: Imports Greenhouse gas emissions Gdp Exports Employment Consumption
Abstract: Part of a country's emissions are caused by producing goods for export to other countries, but in addition, the country's own needs generate emissions in other parts of the world that are associated with the products they import. Our interest was to evaluate the influence of imports and exports of goods and services on the greenhouse gas emissions in a data panel composed of 30 countries and 21 years. We included as control variables, the gross domestic product per capita, employment, an indicator of the economic crisis and a non-linear trend. Inferences were performed using a Bayesian framework. In the results for estimates exports and imports of goods, rather than services, which were related to CO2-equivalent levels. Exports and imports of goods were very inelastic, something less in the case of the index. In summary, the more a country imports, the higher their greenhouse gas emission levels. However, it is important to point out that when employment rates are higher more energy is consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are greater. In richer countries, GDP per capita is the factor that best explains why their emissions are so high.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Renewable energy, sustainability and the environment Renewable energy, sustainability and the environm Interdisciplinar General computer science Fuel technology Engineering (miscellaneous) Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Energy engineering and power technology Energy (miscellaneous) Energy & fuels Electrical and electronic engineering Economia Control and optimization Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Building and construction Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 19961073
Author's mail: laura.fabregat@urv.cat laia.pie@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-0077-161X 0000-0003-3596-7097
Record's date: 2024-09-28
Journal volume: 11
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/7/1644
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Energies. 11 (7): 1644-
APA: Pie, Laia; Fabregat-Aibar, Laura; Saez, Marc (2018). The influence of imports and exports on the evolution of greenhouse gas emissions: The case for The Europa Union. Energies, 11(7), 1644-. DOI: 10.3390/en11071644
Article's DOI: 10.3390/en11071644
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications