Data for: Firm ownership, China's export related emissions, and the responsibility issue

One often neglected aspect is the prevalence of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) in China's exports, for which a substantial portion of benefits return to the investing countries. In this paper, we revisit China's export-related CO2 emission responsibilities by viewing them from a “new”, gross national income perspective.

Using a recently developed environmental input–output framework, one which distinguishes firms by ownership and trade mode, we find that China's CO2 emissions responsibility for each Yuan of national income from FIE exports, is actually higher than that attributable to Chinese owned enterprise (COE) exports. The result has a somewhat surprising implication: it suggests another source of conflict between China's and global interest in reducing CO2 emissions.