We analyze the impact of a rise in protectionism on environmental regulation. Using the 2018 US-China trade war as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that higher exposure to tariffs leads to less stringent regulation targets in China, increasing air pollution and carbon emissions. Politically...

International production fragmentation has generated and reallocated value added as well as CO2 emissions across economies. Prior studies have mainly focused on the embodied emissions or value added in trade. The evidence regarding the embodied emission intensity, and particularly the role of...

This book explores Chinas low-carbon consumption in the context of residential behaviour, corporate practices and policy Implication. It first calculates the carbon and ecological footprints of residential consumption, including both direct and indirect emissions, before discussing Chinese...