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Trade's growing footprint

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The production of traded goods accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Now analysis reveals that emissions embodied in imports from developing countries have out-stripped emission reductions made by developed countries at home over the past 20 years.

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Figure 1: Emissions embodied in international trade.

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  1. Carolyn Fischer is a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy at Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street NW, Washington DC 20036, USA. She is also a member of the ENTWINED (environment and trade in a world of interdependence) research programme of the Mistra Foundation.,

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Fischer, C. Trade's growing footprint. Nature Clim Change 1, 146–147 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1136

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