Does International Agricultural Trade Matter for Carbon Emissions: A Case Study of the Area Along "the Belt and Road Initiative"

2019 2nd International Conference of Green Buildings and Environmental Management

生态环境科学

Yang, Ju^1^2

Department of Economics and Management, West Anhui University, Lu'an, Anhui

237012, China^1

Department of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei

437000, China^2

关键词: Carbon emissions;    Empirical studies;    Per capita;    Research problems;    Trade openness;    Trade potentials;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/310/5/052072/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/310/5/052072

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The research problem of this study is to understand how international agricultural trade affects the carbon emissions. To address this, we have conducted an empirical study based on the panel dataset of 48 countries of 5 regions along "the Belt and Road Initiative" over the period 1995-2014. The impacts of agricultural trade openness on the level of carbon emissions per capita has been investigated. Along with the traditional trade openness, a different trade openness measure is used, called as the adjusted agricultural trade potential index. Based on the findings of the paper, we can draw the following conclusion, that is, the adjusted agricultural trade potential index is negatively associated with the carbon emissions.