Department for the Environment, Food, & Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
DEFRA’s Embodied Carbon in Trade Research
These reports are hosted here because they are extremely difficult to dig out f the Government’s web site.
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This comes in two parts:
Wiedmann et al., Department for the Environment, Food, & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), July 2008.
Development of an Embedded Carbon Emissions Indicator – Producing a Time Series of Input-Output Tables and Embedded Carbon Dioxide Emissions for the UK by Using a MRIO Data Optimisation System
In 2005, Defra commissioned the Stockholm Environment Institute to identify the most appropriate approach to constructing an indicator for emissions embedded in trade flows to and from the UK. One of the conclusions from that study was that, in order to derive reliable and robust estimates for embedded emissions, it is important to explicitly consider the production efficiency and emissions intensity of a number of trading countries and world regions in an international trade model, which is globally closed and sectorally deeply disaggregated.
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Barrett et al., Department for the Environment, Food, & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), May 2011.
UK Consumption Emissions by Sector and Origin
This report provides an analysis of where Greenhouse Gas emissions associated with UK consumption occur by both sector and country. To undertake this task a “Multi-Regional Environmentally extended input-output analysis” (MREEIOA) is employed to allocate environmental pressures (e.g. emissions of greenhouse gases) associated with production and supply chain processes to groups of finished products by means of inter-industry economic transactions. The majority of the data is derived from the “Global Trade Analysis Project” and forms part of the outputs from a European 7th Framework project entitled, “OPEN-EU”.
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