The problem of assigning responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions

Abstract

The paper discusses different methods to assign the responsibility for Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: the geographical approach, based on the IPCC guidelines for GHG inventory; the consumer responsibility approach, based on the Ecological Footprint methodology; the Carbon Emission Added (CEA) approach that adopts the Embodied Energy-Energy Analysis method. The last approach tries to solve the problem between the consumer and producer accounting principles, considering also the emissions of developing countries. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.