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Consumption growth (green) has had a much greater impact on the EU carbon footprint than the offshoring of production, with technological improvements reducing emissions (blue).
The focus should be on enacting change, not the global impact of trade!
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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
The focus should be on enacting change, not the global impact of trade!
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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Trade in both directions (imports and exports) is important for the manufacturing sector. The data does not support claims of wholesale ‘de-industrialisation’ but rather reflects increased trade intensity related to specialization.
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Several (but not all) of the major sources of net embodied imports are largely unavoidable consequences of European consumption because the primary production activities (e.g. mining and significant shares of agricultural) could not realistically occur within the EU.
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Limited detailed and specific analysis was undertaken for the EU until the parallel work of Karstensen, Peters, and Andrew (2018). link.springer.com/article/10.100…
He, he. Sorry! But yours was much nicer...
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He, he. Sorry! But yours was much nicer...
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