The Impact of Global Value Chain Embedding on Carbon Emissions Embodied in China’s Exports

The impact of global value chain (GVC) division labor on carbon emissions embodied in exports has attracted extensive attention from scholars, but existing studies have not distinguished the heterogeneous different GVC embedding patterns exports. This study examines effects two (forward and backward embedding) using data 46 sectors China 2000 to 2014. results show that both forward are characterized by increasing participation which increases Chinese By contrast, pattern is length production location index help reduce There significant heterogeneity effect Increasing chains can effectively labor-intensive technology-intensive no capital-intensive sectors. Therefore, government should start China’s changing pattern, improving position embedding, vigorously developing energy-saving emission reduction technologies clean industries, achieve its CO 2 target 2030.