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A fifth of carbon dioxide emissions come from multinational companies’ global supply chains, according to a new study led by UCL and Tianjin University that shows the scope of multinationals’ influence on climate change.<\/p>\n

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The study, published in Nature Climate Change<\/i>, maps the emissions generated by multinationals’ assets and suppliers abroad, finding that the flow of investment is typically from developed countries to developing ones\u2014meaning that emissions are in effect outsourced to poorer parts of the world.<\/p>\n

The research shows the impact that multinationals can have by encouraging greater energy efficiency among suppliers or by choosing suppliers that are more carbon efficient.
\nThe authors proposed that emissions be assigned to countries where the investment comes from, rather than countries where the emissions are generated.
\nProfessor Dabo Guan (UCL Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management) said: “Multinational companies have enormous influence stretching far beyond national borders. If the world’s leading companies exercised leadership on climate change\u2014for instance, by requiring energy efficiency in their supply chains\u2014they could have a transformative effect on global efforts to reduce emissions.
\n“However, companies’ climate change policies often have little effect when it comes to big investment decisions such as where to build supply chains.
\n“Assigning emissions to the investor country means multinationals are more accountable for the emissions they generate as a result of these decisions.”
\nThe study found that carbon emissions from multinationals’ foreign investment fell from a peak of 22% of all emissions in 2011 to 18.7% in 2016. Researchers said this was a result of a trend of “de-globalisation”, with the volume of foreign direct investment shrinking, as well as new technologies and processes making industries more carbon efficient.
\nMapp<\/a>ing the global flow of investment, researchers found steady increases in investment from developed to developing countries. For instance, between 2011 and 2016 emissions generated through investment from the US to India increased by nearly half (from 48.3 million tons to 70.7 million tons), while in the same years emissions generated through investment from China to south-east Asia increased tenfold (from 0.7 million tons to 8.2 million tons).
\nLead author Dr. Zengkai Zhang, of Tianjin University, said: “Multinationals are increasingly transferring investment from developed to developing countries. This has the effect of reducing developed countries’ emissions while placing a greater emissions burden on poorer countries. At the same time it is likely to create higher emissions overall, as investment is moved to more ‘carbon intense’ regions.”
\nThe study also examined the emissions that the world’s largest companies generated through foreign investment. For instance, Total S.A.’s foreign affiliates generated more than a tenth of the total emissions of France.
\nBP, meanwhile, generated more emissions through its foreign affiliates than the foreign-owned oil industry in any country except for the United States; Walmart, meanwhile, generated more emissions abroad than the whole of Germany’s foreign-owned retail sector, while Coca-Cola’s emissions around the world were equivalent to the whole of the foreign-owned food and drink industry hosted by China.<\/p>\n

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\n Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises, Nature Climate Change<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1038\/s41558-020-0895-9 , www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-020-0895-9\n <\/div>\n

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