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Consumption-Based CO2 Emissions on Sustainable Development Goals of SAARC Region
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Rafiuddin Ahmed,
Abu Hashan Md. Mashud ,
Asif Iqbal Malik ,
Sujan Miah ,
Abedin Abedin
Sustainability, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Start page: 1467
Swansea University Author: Abedin Abedin
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/su14031467
Abstract
Consumption-based CO2 emission (CBE) accounting shows the possibility of global carbon leakage. Very little attention has been paid to the amount of emissions related to the consumption of products and services and their impact on sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially in the SAARC region....
| Published in: | Sustainability |
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| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
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2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64268 |
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Consumption-based CO2 emission (CBE) accounting shows the possibility of global carbon leakage. Very little attention has been paid to the amount of emissions related to the consumption of products and services and their impact on sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially in the SAARC region. This study used a CBE accounting method to measure the CO2 emissions of five major SAARC member countries. Additionally, a Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and a causality model were used to investigate the long-term effects of the CBE and SDG variables between 1972 and 2015. The results showed that household consumption contributed more than 62.39% of CO2 emissions overall in the SAARC region. India had the highest household emissions, up to 37.27%, and Nepal contributed the lowest, up to 0.61%. The total imported emissions were the greatest in India (16.88 Gt CO2) and Bangladesh (15.90 Gt CO2). At the same time, the results for the long-term relationships between the CBEs and SDGs of the SAARC region showed that only the combustible renewables and waste (CRW) variable is significant for most of these countries. The sharing of the responsibility for emissions between suppliers and customers could encourage governments and policymakers to make global climate policy and sustainable development decisions, which are currently stalled by questions over geographical and past emission inequities. |
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Carbon intensity; emissions embodied in trade; SDGs; MRIO; environmental sustainability |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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3 |
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1467 |