This paper describes the sources and methods used to estimate carbon emissions embodied in final demand and international gross trade for 65 economies over the period 2005-2015. Earlier OECD analyses of carbon footprints, accounting for global production networks, helped raise awareness of...

Sustainable energy strategies require decision-makers in government, industry, academia and civil society alike to make choices among tradeoffs. Within the transport sector alone, ethanol has been shown to be the dominant solution among viable, low carbon options to date, yet questions remain...

Sustainable energy strategies require decision-makers in government, industry, academia and civil society alike to make choices among tradeoffs. Within the transport sector alone, ethanol has been shown to be the dominant solution among viable, low carbon options to date, yet questions remain...

The Brazilian integration strategy has been focused on agreements based upon North-South and South-South negotiations. However, this kind of negotiations face serious troubles to be done. Consequently, the option of the internal economic integration might be more viable in terms of social...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the productive structure of the Parana economy emphasizing the role of the agricultural cooperatives in the state development for the years 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995. Using input-output tables estimated for those years it was possible to detect that: i) for...

The climate transition projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC – will affect the world’s natural resources, economy, and societies to an extent which is not yet known. The study The Economics of Climate Change in Brazil (EMCB) is a pioneering initiative aimed at...

This paper analyzes the relation between economic performance and CO2 emissions in Brazil, in the year 2004. The contribution of the productive sectors to total emission is established, taking into account the technological structure of the economy, the interrelations among sectors, the sectoral...