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Professor Qi Ye Published an Article Entitled “Interpreting China’s Carbon Flows”

Jul.11.2013

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Professor Qi Ye of the School of Public Policy and Management, who is also the director of Tsinghua’s Climate Policy Institute, has published an article entitled “Interpreting China’s Carbon Flows” in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, co-written with senior research fellow Li Huimin and senior policy analyst Wu Tong, discusses the economic and geographic forces shaping the flow of embodied carbon emissions within China.

The article is a response to another paper published in PNAS by Dr. Feng Kuishuang and colleagues, which analyzed the phenomenon of carbon “outsourcing” between different regions in China. This dynamic, argue Feng et al., has important implications for the country’s future climate policy. Disparities in regional energy use and emissions, they argue, can be better addressed through a national cap-and-trade system, which would put a uniform price on carbon.

The paper by Professor Qi supplements this analysis by clarifying the impact of China’s economic structure on the movement of embodied emissions. The challenge of this dynamic, they conclude, issues in three fundamental ways: equity loss, efficiency loss, and carbon leakage. And rather than limiting the consideration of responsibility to consumers within China, international consumers – who are responsible for almost half of the “outsourced” carbon – should also bear responsibility.

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