How the manufacturing economy impacts China's energy-related GHG emissions: Insights from structural path analysis.

摘要: Abstract As “the world's factory”, China's energy consumption and GHG emissions can be largely attributed to its manufacturing economy. This paper aims examine energy-related methane (CH4) carbon dioxide (CO2) by Chinese economy from a consumption-based perspective, explore the energy-climate-manufacturing nexus relationship in supply chains. Nearly three-quarters of 2012 were associated with industry directly or indirectly. Among which, over two-fifths national CH4 CO2 embodied final demand products, mainly driven exports capital formation. Meanwhile, sectors served as important intemediate transmission nodes for other industries such construction services. More than 80% 40% services related intermediate uses respectively. Critical chain paths linking extracted through structural path analysis technique. The top 30 common responsible about one fifth total emissions. Three main emission flows identified. While approximately half occurred at fourth higher production layers, distributed evenly across layers. Mitigating adjusting critical industrial demands provides new insights understanding transitions low-carbon