Input-output assessment of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission in Asia.

Abstract

; Input-output model was applied to analyze the direct and indirect energy consumptions as well as the corresponding carbon dioxide emissions in the Asia-Pacific region including nine Asian coun-tries and the USA for the year 1985. The analysis was made by combining the Asian International Input-Output Table (1985) of the Institute of Developing Economies with energy statistics available for the countries. The results of the model application were compared among different inter industry sectors of a country, and between inter industry sectors of different countries. The results reveal that almost all the Chinese inter industry sectors have very high energy consumption intensities and carbon dioxide emission intensities per unit monetary production, in sharp contrast to those of other countries. It is also shown that Japan and Singapore substantially rely upon the energy consumption and carbon dioxide embodied in the goods and services imported from other countries.