Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization: Input-Output Studies on the Consequences of the 2015 Paris Agreements(Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics)

On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal. They agreed to decarbonize the economy in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2ºC relative to the preindustrial levels. Although each country is free to design its own strategy on mitigation and adaptation, it will be bound to such strategy and is supposed to implement the bulk of the adjustments by 2050. Many questions arise from the Paris Agreement that points to a second Industrial Revolution. What are the required changes in the structure of production and in the patterns of consumption? What will be their impacts on emissions, employment and international trade? This book answers these questions from a variety of input-output models able to compute the impacts on specific sectors and regions. This volume has 17 chapters written by 52 co-authors who are specialists in input-output analysis and environmental sustainability. They come from 24 universities, research centers and international agencies all over the world, sharing their commitments to explain important and complex ideas in a way that is understandable to the non-experts and experts alike. Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization is a very important read for those who study environmental economics, climate change and ecological economics.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Óscar Dejuán, María-Ángeles Cadarso and Manfred Lenzen Part I. Electricity generation. Towards a cleaner mix Decarbonizing electricity generation in the EU. Its impact on emissions and employment all over the world Óscar Dejuán, Jorge Zafrilla, María-Ángeles Tobarra, Fabio Monsalve and Carmen Córcoles Indirect emissions and socio-economic impacts on energy efficiency. Improvements and renewable electricity in Europe Kurt Kratena Global renewable energy diffusion in an input-output framework Kirsten S. Wiebe Potentials to decarbonize electricity consumption in Australia Paul Wolfram and Thomas Wiedmann Part II. Household consumption and social well-being Global income inequality and carbon footprints: can we have the cake and eat it too? Klaus Hubacek, Giovanni Baiocchi, Kuishuang Feng, Raúl Muñoz-Castillo, Laixiang Sun and Jinjun Xue The potential contribution of solar thermal electricity (STE) in Mexico in the light of the Paris Agreements Irene Rodríguez-Serrano and Natalia Caldés Peak carbon emission in China: a household energy use perspective Haiyan Zhang and Michael L. Lahr The road to Paris with energy-efficiency strategies and GHG emissions-reduction targets: the case of Spain Rosa Duarte, Julio Sánchez-Chóliz and Cristina Sarasa Part III. Key drivers in carbon emissions and improvements in energy efficiency Global drivers of change in GHG emissions from a consumption perspective. Carbon footprint accounting in a post-Paris world Soeren Lindner, José-Manuel Rueda-Cantuche and Richard Wood South America’s global value chains and CO2 emissions embodied in trade, an input-output approach José Durán-Lima and Santacruz Banacloche Structural analysis of the top five most GHG emitting economies Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles, Javier Castañeda-León and Eduardo Moreno-Reyes Life-cycle environmental and natural resource implications of energy efficiency technologies Sangwon Suh, Edgar Hertwich, Stefanie Hellweg and Alissa Kendall Part IV. Policy tools Carbon leakage risk criteria to strengthen the effectiveness of INDCs Guadalupe Arce , Luis-Antonio López, María-Ángeles Cadarso and Nuria Gómez An assessment of the effects of the new carbon tax in Chile Rocío Román, José-Manuel Cansino and Manuel Ordóñez Paris-COP21 and carbon pricing: coordination challenges and carbon border measures. The case of the EU Jordi Roca, Paola Rocchi and Mònica Serrano Revisiting Japanese Carbon Footprint Studies Yosuke Shigetomi, Keisuke Nansai, Kayoko Shironitta, And Shigemi Kagawa The socioeconomic and environmental impacts of fossil fuels subsidies reduction and renewable energy expansion in China Liang Dong, Jingzheng Ren, João F.D. Rodrigues and Arnold Tukker

About the Author :
Óscar Dejuán is Professor of Economics at University of Castilla, La Mancha, Spain. Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research in the School of Physics at University of Sydney, Australia. María Ángeles Cadarso is Associate Professor of Economics at University of Castilla, La Mancha, Spain.