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A careful comparison of quantitative results from this literature exposes significant inconsistencies. For instance, estimates for emission embodied in world trade in 2004 range between 4.4 Gt and 6.2 Gt CO2, the difference corresponding to around half of Europe&rsquo;s annual emissions. A few consistent themes do nevertheless emerge from the literature. Most importantly, emissions in trade constitute a large and growing share of global emissions. Uncertainty about country-level embodied emissions remains large, however, which presents severe limitations for the practical application of embodied carbon principles in climate policy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>This paper critically reviews the literature on embodied carbon in trade and evaluates our present empirical understanding of these flows.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[344,346,347,302,345],"publication-type":[436],"topic_area":[4694],"class_list":["post-8883","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","tag-embodied-carbon","tag-ghg-accounting","tag-input-output-modelling","tag-international-trade","tag-production-vs-consumption","publication-type-research-articles","topic_area-policy-evaluation"],"acf":{"downloads":{"ref_value":"field_52f16cc1a80f2","value":false,"type":"repeater","post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["misato-sato"],"type":"relationship","post_type":"profile"},"article_link":{"ref_value":"field_52eee3c7f0586","value":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com.gate2.library.lse.ac.uk\/doi\/10.1111\/joes.12027\/abstract","type":false,"post_type":""},"article_link_title":{"ref_value":"field_5322399d89d42","value":"Link to publisher","type":false,"post_type":""},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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