Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production-based versus Consumption-based Evidence on Decoupling

The estimates for per capita CO2 emissions are truly comprehensive as these include all carbon emissions embodied in international trade and global commodity chains.

Even if we find evidence suggesting a decoupling of production-based CO2 emissions and growth, consumption- based CO2 emissions are monotonically increasing with per capita GDP.

We draw out the implications of these findings for climate policy and binding emission reduction obligations.

Read The Institute for New Economic Thinking story and download the report - “Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production-based versus Consumption-based Evidence onDecoupling.”