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Unpublished Paper
How fast is the World's Center of CO2 Emissions Moving Eastwards?
(2009)
  • Nicole Andréa Mathys
  • Grether Jean-Marie
Abstract

Borrowing from physics the concept of center of mass and applying it to the distribution of CO2 anthropogenic sources provided by the EDGAR data base, we can draw on the Earth’s surface the trajectory of the world’s pollution center of gravity over the 1970-2005 period. It is strongly heading to the East, and more so than GDP, which suggests that Asian production is getting more CO2 intensive than Western production.

Keywords
  • center of gravity,
  • CO2 emissions
Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Nicole Andréa Mathys and Grether Jean-Marie. "How fast is the World's Center of CO2 Emissions Moving Eastwards?" (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nicole_mathys/8/