Doctor Ao Li, a researcher of the base, has published a collaborative paper titled "The path to global climate justice: From the perspective of regional discrepancy in embodied carbon emissions" in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.

EIAR is a leading international journal in environmental studies, emphasizing innovation in both theory and practice, and covering environmental impact assessment and management across policies, projects, and products.

Abstract:

Achieving climate justice is an important goal and basic principle of global climate governance. This paper evaluates the progress of achieving global climate justice by quantitatively depicting the evolution characteristics, group differences and driving factors of global embodied carbon emissions. The results indicate that the phenomenon of embodied carbon inequality is more obvious. Furthermore, a data-driven clustering algorithm is adopted to divide the world's major economies into four convergence clubs based on the embodied carbon emissions levels. We find that the embodied carbon emissions gap between different clubs has widened since 2008, which may be related to the re-industrialization of developed countries. The results of SDA analysis indicate that the embodied carbon emissions of developed countries, such as the United States, are more driven by per capita end-use. On the contrary, unclean consumption and investment structure is the main driving force for the increase of embodied carbon emissions in developing countries such as China. Therefore, efforts should be made in developing countries on the clean adjustment of consumption and investment structure to promote the convergence of embodied carbon emissions with developed countries.

Keywords：Climate justice; Embodied carbon emissions; Carbon emission inequality; Regional discrepancy

Link：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2023.107410

Teacher profile

Ao Li is a Lecturer at the School of Finance, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Li's research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, and enterprise innovation. Li earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting (ACCA) from the School of Management at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, a Master's degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sheffield, UK, and a PhD in Finance from the School of Management at Xiamen University. Li's research papers have been published in academic journals including The World Economy, Journal of Management Science, International Review of Financial Analysis, Energy Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, and Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Li is a Chartered Certified Accountant and an ACCA Member.