<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for China’s foreign minister talks climate and development]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by meander http://www.grist.org/article/clinton-global-initiative-the-view-from-china/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:24:14 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/clinton-global-initiative-the-view-from-china/1 How much of China's CO2 is for export products?

I've been wondering what fraction of China's greenhouse gas emissions is from manufacture of products for export.  Much of the electronics, clothing and other consumer goods made in China would not be produced within their borders if no one was buying them---or if companies based in the U.S., Japan and E.U. weren't making the decision to open plants in China.  Some of the CO2 emitted in making a laptop, for example, should be assigned to the country or countries that hosts the company that picked China as the manufacturing site and the consumer who bought the laptop.  Has anyone done this type of greenhouse gas accounting?

--- meander

]]> How much of China's CO2 is for export products?

I've been wondering what fraction of China's greenhouse gas emissions is from manufacture of products for export.  Much of the electronics, clothing and other consumer goods made in China would not be produced within their borders if no one was buying them---or if companies based in the U.S., Japan and E.U. weren't making the decision to open plants in China.  Some of the CO2 emitted in making a laptop, for example, should be assigned to the country or countries that hosts the company that picked China as the manufacturing site and the consumer who bought the laptop.  Has anyone done this type of greenhouse gas accounting?

--- meander

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