Does offshoring contribute to reducing domestic air emissions? Evidence from Belgian manufacturing |
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| Institution: | 1. Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Jungong Road 516, Yangpu District, Shanghai, 200093, China;2. Energy Strategy and Low-carbon Development Research Center, Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Building No.1–4, District B, Tianfu Jingrong Center, Tianfu Science City, Tianfu New Area, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610200, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua-BP Clean Energy Research & Education Centre, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China;1. Institute for Transport and Logistics Management, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria;2. School of Administrative Studies, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3;3. Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, 121 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;4. School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA;2. Centre for Neuroscience, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología (INDICASAT AIP), City of Knowledge, Panama City, Panama;3. Department of Biotechnology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, AP, India;4. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA;5. Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine and Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA;6. Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA;7. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA;1. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;2. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, Beijing 100081, China;4. Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing 100081, China;5. Environmental Modelling Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), c/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain;6. School of Management, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), 40210-630 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil;1. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3. Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT, UK |
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| Abstract: | Since the mid-90s, production-related air emissions in Belgian manufacturing have fallen substantially and it can be shown that the pace of the fall has been fastest for domestic intermediates. It is widely debated whether offshoring has played a role in this fall by replacing domestic intermediates by imported intermediates. This paper develops a decomposition analysis to measure the contribution of offshoring – the share of imported intermediates in total intermediates – to the fall in air emissions for domestic intermediates. Based on the results from this decomposition analysis, it was possible to calculate that 17% of the fall in greenhouse gas emissions, 6% of the fall in acidifying emissions and 7% of the fall in tropospheric precursor emissions in Belgian manufacturing between 1995 and 2007 can be attributed to offshoring. |
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