Assessing Global CO2 Emission Inequality From Consumption Perspective: An Index Decomposition Analysis

CO2 emission inequality among countries is a key issue in international climate negotiations. In view of the growing popularity of the consumption-based emission accounting system in climate policy studies, analyzing the emission inequality from the consumption perspective can help policymakers design emission abatement scenarios that are fairer to all parties. Using a new approach based on the Theil index and the index decomposition analysis...