BIOSCOPE: A model combining Markov-chain theory and input–output table data to estimate the CO2 content of final demand
✍ Scribed by Gilbert Lissens; Jan Van Rensbergen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 592 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1180-4009
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✦ Synopsis
The paper describes a model, BIOSCOPE, developed within the Energy Division of VITO, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research. BIOSCOPE stands for Balanced Input-Output System for CO, in Products of an Economy, and is designed to give estimates of the CO, that has been emitted through the combustion of fossil fuels to produce certain products. We stress that this model is a macro model that takes into consideration the whole of an open economy. If 'a product' is mentioned in this text, generally, the 'average product' of a certain sector is addressed. Whenever a product is consumed, it intrinsically carries a certain amount of C02 that was emitted during the transformation process that yielded this specific product. BIOSCOPE tries to track down these C02 emissions for products of industrial and commercial sectors. The study of COz attributed to consumption and export products, rather than the CO2 emissions of a certain sector of an economy, is important because it sheds a light on how the consumption pattern rather than the industrial structure of an economy influences the emissions of COz. In the view of the transboundary aspects of CO2 attributed to products, and questions being raised on the subject 'how much of the C02 emitted in a country is attributable to the consumption of products in that country, and how much CO;! has been emitted elsewhere for inland consumers', BIOSCOPE can help in the estimation process. The model uses input-output tables as its main source of input data, along with energy and C02-emission data and uses Markov chain theory to attribute C02 emissions to a certain class of products.