Hidden CO2 emissions in EU fashion industry imports

• Ignas Valodka ; Vytautas Snieška ^[1]
  1. [1] Kaunas University of Technology

     Kaunas University of Technology

     Lituania

     
• Localización: Edunovatic 2019 conference proceedings: 4th Virtual International Conference on Education, Innovation and ICT: 18-19 December, 2019, 2019, ISBN 978-84-09-19568-8, págs. 687-692
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The traditional way of calculations of carbon emissions due to the development of international trade results in misleading conclusions. In this study we apply World Input-Output method to assess the emissions embodied in trade. We investigate EU textile and clothing industry and its increasing demand implications and impacts for textile and clothing products during 2000-2016. The results showed that 1) there was 2548 kilotons of CO2 embodied in EU textile and clothing industry imports from China in 2000 and 5677 kilotons of CO2 in 2016. EU in 2000 imported 1299 kilotons of CO2 in 2000 and 1358 kilotons of CO2 in 2016 from India. From Turkey accordingly emissions embodied in imports were: 1632 in 2000 and 2062 in 2016. 2) Detailed calculations by country showed that biggest amounts of CO2 emissions embodied in imports from EU were United Kingdom (with 1637 kilotons of CO2) and Germany (with 1021 kilotons of CO2) in 2016 from China. 3) Direct carbon emission coefficients show that India’s industry compared to China’s and Turkey’s is most carbon intensive with 0.25 kilotons per million of USD in 2000 and with 0.09 kilotons per million of USD in 2016. 4) The correlation between the EU GDP and the import of CO2 from China textile industry by means of textile trade is positive, and equals 0.665. In order to properly evaluate each countries responsibility and ensure progress towards carbon emission reduction, countries should estimate emissions embodied in trade. The analysis shows that consumption based estimation method can improve our understanding of which countries and what factors carry responsibility for emissions.