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The relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth
Oxbridge study on CO2-GDP relationships,
Phase 1 results
Michael Grubb,1 Benito Müller,2 and Lucy Butler1
1 Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge University2 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and University of Oxford
Overview & datasets
Aims: to understand past relationships between national CO2 emissions and GDP to help inform current debates about emission projectionsDatasets considered: – International Energy Agency– Energy Information Administration (US DOE)– CDIAC (US Oak Ridge)– WRI CAIT
No major inconsistencies observed, EIA accessible for general trend analysis, CDIAC and CAIT for data since 1950, WRI CAIT most complete for cross-comparisonsPopulation is an important factors; all comparisons analysed on per-capita basis
General finding: viewed across all data, basic industrialisation clearly implies higher emissions but link between wealth and CO2 is very weak beyond this
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A. Time series patterns in industrialised countries
For major countries which industrialised earliest – UK & US - per-capita emissions have remained close to levels 50 years before whilst per-capita GDP trebled
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In last two decades, wider groups of developed economies show divergence between GDP and emissions with no clear linkage with GDP variations
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CANZA = Canada, New Zealand, AustraliaData Source: US Energy Information Administration
In the ‘post transition’ period, transition economies (EITs) have grown with little or no emissions growth
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B. Scatter analysis of CO2 – GDP relationships in industrialised countries
For scatter analysis, care needs to be taken to avoid spurious results
Oxbridge dataset for scatter analysis of industrialised countries:– Source data from WRI CAIT includes all present OECD and
EIT countries– Data problems for some EITs prior to 1992– Countries with population < 5m excluded to avoid small
county project and border effects (eg. Luxembourg steel plant); Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia aggregated to Baltic data
– Data examined subject to per-capita emission thresholds of (a) 1tC/yr and (b) 2tC/yr to explore sensitivity to degrees of prior industrialisation
– Data smoothed over (a) 3 years and (b) 7 years to examine variational effects
Scatter analysis of data shows wide dispersion that declines for longer averages and higher emissions- only South Korea showed strong GDP-CO2 link at high growth rates
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Per Capita GDP Growth vs Per Capita Emissions Growth
Carbon Emissions > 2 tonne, 7 yr Moving Average
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Specific growth rate findings from scatter analysis of OECD & EIT countries
There is wide dispersion of results, with per-capita emissions growth in the dataset mostly in the range +/- 10% (3-year trend) and +/-5% (7-year trend) about an average of almost stable per capita emissionsThere are short bursts of emissions growth exceeding 10%/yr, but the only cases with emissions growth sustained above 5%/yr for 7 years or more are:*– The ‘tiger economies’ in the earlier stages of their basic
industrialisation whilst emissions still less than 2tC/yr– South Korea in the ten years after the oil price crash
Excepting South Korea, sustained (7-year avg) GDP growth rates above 4% are associated with emission trends within range +/- 3%/yr.
* The Danish moving average to 1996 (only) exceeded 5%/yr due to combination of oil price collapse with extended low rainfall reducing imports of Scandinavian hydro power.
In the transition economies, resumed economic growth in many of the fastest-growing economies has been accompanied by continued emission reductions
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Data Source: US Energy Information AdministrationNote: there are uncertainties about the Belarus data
GDP vs CO2 Annual Growth Rates (Per Capita, 1995-2001)
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C. A closer look at carbon intensity trends in countries with economies in transition
Emission intensities trends in EITs were very varied during recession periods (first half 1990s) but since 1996 most have averaged 3-10% annual improvement
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The median rate of intensity reduction across all the EITs was by late 1990s more than 4%/yr
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Principal conclusions
Conclusions regarding GDP-CO2 relationships: General and OECD
Data are highly variable over time and between countries; any generalisations need to be treated with great careBeyond basic industrialisation, any relationship between GDP and CO2 appears to be very weakThe available historical data for OECD indicate: – Major ‘early industrialisers’ (US, UK) show evidence of
saturation in per-capita emissions, but at very different levels
– Excluding small country effects, no country other than South Korea after oil price collapse has sustained per capita emission growth rates (7 year average) above 5%/yr
– With this exception, since 1980 any link between emissions and GDP appears very weak and this has not changed in the period of energy price stability (1990+): there is no clear link between more rapid economic growth and more rapid CO2 growth
Conclusions regarding GDP-CO2 relationships: EITs
For Economies in Transition, comprehensive analysis is constrained by inadequate data prior to 1992, but:– The collapse of emissions associated with the initial
transition has not reversed during the period of subsequent economic growth
– Countries that have implemented reforms have since mid 1990s experienced resurgent economic growth without emissions growth
– For these countries, annual carbon intensity improvements since mid 1990s have been in range 3 – 10%/yr with the median across all EITs exceeding 4%/yr
Postscript: our findings in relation to the Institute of Economic Analysis paper on ‘Economic Consequences of Possible Ratification’The Institute paper presents extensive and interesting analysis of international data, but appears quite selective in its use and questionable in the analogies drawnOur findings on the tendency of many advanced economies towards approximate per-capita emissions stabilisation is in sharp contrastOur findings regarding intensity trends appear very different. Major reasons include: – Institute analysis of intensity vs. economic growth (Fig. 31 and associated
paragraphs) is driven largely by the negative data (economic collapse of EITs) and the results of early industrialising and OPEC oil exporters;
– OECD and EIT data (as in our analysis) address the experience of diversified and growing economies with an established industrial base
– The Institute’s use of 2%/yr carbon intensity improvement is hard to reconcile with evidence from other transition economies
The biggest issues are: – all the evidence suggests that emissions are to an important degree a function of
policy and choice that determines the energy efficiency of economies– no industrialised country other than South Korea after the oil price collapse (which
started from a far lower emissions and intensity base) has sustained the rate of emissions growth projected in the Institute’s analysis over a comparable period
– Is the Russian economic structure analogous to OPEC or to other EITs, and do its aspirations lie to a diversified OECD-like market economy, or a primary resource economy with subsidised energy prices?