Author(s)

Qingjing Zhang, Xiaowen Dai

Corresponding Author

Xiaowen Dai

ABSTRACT

in the context of global warming and rising trade protectionism, the research on the carbon emissions embodied by agricultural product trade is of great significance for agricultural development. By estimating and analyzing the carbon emissions embodied by china’s agricultural import and export trade from 2009 to 2017, this paper finds that china is a net carbon importer in agricultural trade. From the perspective of agricultural carbon emissions, such a trade has saved a part of domestic carbon emissions and also reduced the carbon emission reduction responsibility for the agricultural sector to a certain extent. From the perspective of trade structures, china's forestry and fishery sectors have undertaken additional agricultural carbon emissions for foreign countries due to international trade, and the main sectors saving domestic agricultural carbon emissions due to international trade are the planting and animal husbandry sectors.

KEYWORDS

Embodied Carbon in Agricultural Trade, Agricultural Carbon Emissions, the Export Structure of Agricultural Products