Why we should consider demand and supply driven emissions?

This blog is based upon my article titled: Demand and supply-side carbon linkages of Turkish economy using hypothetical extraction method’, Journal of Cleaner Production. 228, pp. 264–275. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.234.

What is it about?

Demand and supply are two main economic aspects. Most policy-makers and researchers focus on direct or demand-driven indirect industrial emissions. However, different industries push emissions with their supplies throughout their downstream (forward) supply chains, i.e. they provide the inputs that set the industrial wheel to produce their products or services. It's important not to ignore the industrial role as emission suppliers. Besides being direct carbon emitters. Simultaneously, industrial demand from other industries also forces (drives) upstream supply chain partners from an industry to produce goods and services. Which also results in carbon emission production. So it's very important to consider both demand and supply-driven emissions to develop a much more efficient carbon mitigation policy.

Perspective

This article is of interest to me because of the hybrid modified hypothetical extraction method (HMHEM) developed by us for this paper to calculate both demand and supply-driven net industrial carbon linkages. (#carbon #emissions #industry #demand #supply #Turkey)