Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 
Author-Name: Zhong, Sheng
Author-Email: zhong@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Structural decompositions of energy consumption, energy intensity, emissions and 
	 emission intensity - A sectoral perspective: empirical evidence from WIOD over 
	 1995 to 2009
Abstract: Using more than 68 million data points from the newly introduced World 
	 Input-Output Database (WIOD) over 1995 to 2009, this study investigates 
	 the historical dynamics of energy consumption, aggregate energy 
	 intensity, total emissions and total emission intensity at sectoral 
	 level by decomposing their relative changes in the input-output 
	 framework into five influencing factors: intensity effect, 
	 inter-industry structural effect, trade effect in intermediate inputs, 
	 structural change effect in final demand and total final demand effect. 
	 It identifies crucial empirical patterns that support UNIDO’s ISID 
	 initiative: increases in energy consumption and total emissions at 
	 sectoral level driven by economic growth can be partially or even 
	 largely offset by the efficiency technology related intensity effect and 
	 the intensity effect within sectors contributes the most to reductions 
	 in aggregate energy intensity and total emission intensity.
Keywords: Structural decomposition, input-output model, energy, emissions, sustainable
	 development
Classification-JEL: C67, O13, R15
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20160329
Number: 2016-015
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2016/wp2016-015.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2016015