examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …. To evaluate the impact of the import ban on air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper …

Quantification of CO2 emissions embodied in China's trade is important for an informed debate on whom to blame for the … calculate these emissions in (1) a standard model, (2) a regionally disaggregated model, taking into account that export … production is concentrated in more advanced and more emission efficient provinces and (3) in a model with export processing …