CO2 emissions and intersectoral linkages. The case of Spain

✍ Scribed by Miguel Ángel Tarancón; Pablo del Río

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-4215
• DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.01.018

✦ Synopsis

This paper proposes a methodology to identify the most relevant productive transactions in terms of CO 2 emissions in the most polluting sectors of an economy and applies this methodology to the Spanish case. Emissions can be related to the CO 2 emissions intensity of sectors (CO 2 intensity factor), to the size of the economy's flows (scale factor), to the input-output productive relationships within an economy (technology-production factor) and to the structure of final demand of different sectors (demand factor). A formal analysis of these factors is carried out by means of an input-output framework combined with a sensitivity analysis. By considering key sectors and relevant transactions in terms of CO 2 emissions, the most effective policy measures aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions can be identified.