Can Carbon Labeling Be Development Friendly? Recommendations on How to Improve Emerging Schemes

Brenton, Paul ; Edwards-Jones, Gareth ; Jensen, Michael F.

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AGGREGATE LEVEL;    AIR;    AMOUNT OF EMISSIONS;    ATMOSPHERE;    BIOMASS;   

RP-ID  :  56232

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Carbon accounting and labeling forproducts are new instruments of supply chain management thatmay affect developing country export opportunities. Mostinstruments in use today are private business managementtools, although the underlying science and methodologies mayspread to issues subject to public regulation. This noteseeks to inform stakeholders involved in the design ofcarbon labeling schemes and in the making of carbon emissionmeasurement methodologies about an overlooked issue: how cancarbon labeling be made to be both development friendly andscientifically correct in its representation ofdeveloping-country agricultural sectors?