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DOI	10.1038/s41558-020-0895-9
	Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises
	Zhang Z.; Guan D.; Wang R.; Meng J.; Zheng H.; Zhu K.; Du H.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1758-678X
英文摘要	Enterprises are at the forefront of climate actions and multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage in foreign direct investment, allowing them substantial influence over the entire supply chain. Yet emissions embodied in the international supply chains of MNEs are poorly known. Here we trace the carbon footprints of foreign affiliates of MNEs and show that the gross volume of global carbon transfer through investment peaked in 2011, mainly driven by the decline in carbon intensity. Despite declining carbon footprints of developed country-based MNEs, there has been a notable increase in carbon transfer sourced from the Chinese mainland. We propose an investment-based accounting framework to allocate carbon footprints of MNEs to the investing country. Investment-based accounting of emissions could inform targeted and effective climate policies and actions. For instance, some large MNEs play a crucial role in carbon transfer, therefore their originating country should bear more responsibilities of carbon emission reduction as an investor. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/142258
作者单位	College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China; Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Research Institute for Global Value Chains, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China; Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang Z.,Guan D.,Wang R.,et al. Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises[J],2020.
APA	Zhang Z..,Guan D..,Wang R..,Meng J..,Zheng H..,...&Du H..(2020).Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises.Nature Climate Change.
MLA	Zhang Z.,et al."Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises".Nature Climate Change (2020).