Outsourced Carbon Emissions Map
The Carnegie Institution recently completed a study that maps the carbon emissions embodied in exported goods.
The following map shows the flow of carbon emissions in traded goods, and which countries are major exporters and importers of carbon emissions.
As GOOD reports: “When someone in the States buys shoes that were made in China, the carbon emitted in their production gets added to China’s tally, despite the fact that the shoes get exported.”
The visualization and study shows that looking only at domestic emissions is pretty misleading and doesn’t capture the true emissions caused by particular country’s total activity. It also makes a case for changing the way we think about allocating responsibility for products to consumers. Read the full story.
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