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...found that more than one-third of CO2 emissions related to the consumption of goods and services in developed countries are actually emitted outside their national borders. Rich nations are essentially outsourcing some of their carbon emissions to developing nations through global trade - by importing goods and services from abroad - thereby shrinking their carbon footprints while inflating those of major exporting nations like China. "It's surprising just how much this effect is driven by the U.S. and China," says Steven Davis, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution and the lead author of the PNAS paper. "It is significant...
...emissions - about 6.2 billion metric tons - are traded internationally, usually going from carbon-intensive developing nations like China to the comparatively less carbon intensive West. In a few rich nations, such as France, Sweden and Britain, more than 30% of consumption-based emissions could be traced to origins abroad; if those emissions were tallied on the other side of the balance sheet, it would add more than four tons of CO2 per person in several European nations...
...large part due to the fact that it is using energy to make clothes, cars and toys for the rest of us. It also demonstrates that Europe - whose per capita carbon footprint is less than half that of the U.S. - essentially imports some of its green virtue from abroad by outsourcing its carbon emissions. "It does shrink the gap somewhat between the U.S. and Europe," says Davis...
Through Harvard grants, many students use their thesis as a way of traveling and studying abroad. While exploring underground archives or interviewing the local populations in the Chinese countryside, Harvard students get a University-subsized glimpse of life outside of Cambridge...
...Weiqi Zhang ’10, who is writing a thesis in Social Studies, his time abroad this summer convinced him to alter the focus of his thesis. Zhang, an inactive Crimson news editor, had originally planned to focus on the Nu River Dam in southwest China and locals’ concerns about the dam’s construction...