With the introduction of the Resource Sustainability Act (RSA) on 5 August 2019, Singapore has embarked on its journey towards building a circular economy. Circularity was further emphasized and detailed in the Zero Waste Masterplan 2019 (ZWMP) launched on 30 August 2019. One of the main pillars...

Carbon abatement efforts in China are penetrating to sub-national level. Zhejiang province, as the 4th wealthy region in China and important player in global market (e.g., textiles, cloth, petroleum and chemical products), lacks in-depth study of its climate change mitigation efforts, especially...

The import dependency of China decreases rapidly from 27% in 2007 to 14% in 2020. Nevertheless, how this impacts its carbon emissions embodied in final demands is unclear, which is not conducive to the policy synergy between import trade and carbon neutrality target. With the time-series...

This paper focuses on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-a major final assembler in production-where studies and evidence on the role of the region in global value chains are limited. We seek to provide new evidence regarding the extent and patterns of international fragmentation...