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 was published by Defra in July 2008. Some of the key findings are as follows:
- Consumer emissions (CE) are significantly higher than producer emissions (PE) or the UNFCCC national total (in 2004, CE are 132 Mt or 21% higher than PE and over 200 Mt or 37% higher than the national total reported to the UNFCCC, including overseas territories.
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 was published by Defra in July 2008. Some of the key findings are as follows:
- Consumer emissions (CE) are significantly higher than producer emissions (PE) or the UNFCCC national total (in 2004, CE are 132 Mt or 21% higher than PE and over 200 Mt or 37% higher than the national total reported to the UNFCCC, including overseas territories.
- CO2 emissions embedded in imports (EEI) are higher than emissions embedded in exports (EEE) for all years and there is a clear trend towards increasing EEI, which went up from 4.3% of producer emissions in 1997 to 21% in 2004.
- From the three world regions investigated in this project, the Rest of the World region (which includes Asia) contributes most to EEI. This dominance has increased sharply in the last couple of years while EEI from non-European OECD countries have fallen significantly at the same time.
- Another interesting result is that from all emissions embedded in UK exports (EEE), 27% came from imports to the UK in 1992; this figure increased steadily over the years ending up with 39% of EEE coming from import sources in 2004.
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