We present a new calculation of Australia’s ecological footprint. Modifications have been made to the concept as originally proposed, in response to its perceived shortcomings: rather than characterising the consumption of the Australian population in terms of appropriated ‘bioproduction’ at world-average productivity, a regional, disturbance-based approach is taken, including actual Australian...

* Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. This text is the author’s translation of an extract from his article “Internationale Energiepolitik” (“International Energy Policy”), published in the anthology Die Zukunft der Energie (The Future of Energy). If the global climate is to be stabilised to ensure that the average temperature on Earth does not in...

This study estimates the extent to which embodied CO2 emissions are increased or reduced when a socioeconomic structural change occurs. Embodied CO2 emissions were estimated by input-output models (I-O models) and a general equilibrium model (GE model), and the respective results were compared. The embodied CO2 emissions differ greatly depending on the assumptions of the total system. The embod...

From the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (VCPOL) held in 1985 to the joint United Nations Convention of Climate Change held in 2010, environmental protection has become increasingly urgent. In 2011, the International Standards Organization launched a new energy management system ISO50001 for improving energy efficiency. As an adjunct to these increasingly stringent inter...

During August–September 2012, we sampled six hydropower reservoirs in southeastern United States for CO2 and CH4 emissions via three pathways: diffusive emissions from water surface; ebullition in the water column; and losses from dam tailwaters during power generation. Estimates of average areal emission rates of CO2 attributable to the six reservoirs (i.e., reservoir plus tailwater emissions)...

The global forest products industry’s carbon and greenhouse gas profile is composed of emissions, sequestration, and avoided emissions. Emissions from the forest products value chain are comprised of direct emissions from manufacturing (~260 million tonnes CO2 per year), as well as a number of different types of indirect emissions including those associated with electricity purchases (~190 mill...

Residential CO2 emissions (RCE) are an important component of anthropogenic emissions. In order to formulate reasonable reduction policies and measures, it is necessary understand the dynamics RCE production factors that influence it. This paper explores spatiotemporal evolution characteristics from perspectives eastern, central, western China, as well urban–rural areas, analyzes driving based ...

In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the Kenya case of multivariate causality of carbon dioxide emissions by employing a time series data spanning from 1961-2011 using the ARDL method of cointegration analysis. The long-run elasticities show that, a 1% increase in financial development increases carbon dioxide emissions by 0.28%, a 1% increase in GDP per capita increases carbon dio...