Domestic versus foreign origin of total energy use: An analysis for Brazil
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Rodríguez Molina, Mercedes; Camacho Ballesta, José Antonio; Da Silva Almeida, Lucas; Molina Belmonte, JesúsEditorial
Elsevier
Materia
Energy use Input-output analysis Industries Multi-region input output table Brazil
Date
2021-10-01Referencia bibliográfica
Mercedes Rodríguez... [et al.]. Domestic versus foreign origin of total energy use: An analysis for Brazil, Energy Reports, Volume 7, 2021, Pages 6327-6337, ISSN 2352-4847, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.09.073]
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European Commission CSO2017-86975-R; Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness and State Research Agency of Spain CSO2017-86975-RRésumé
Energy use is the major source of greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of this paper is to examine total
domestic and foreign energy use across industries in Brazil over the period 1995–2015. We found that
total energy use experienced an annual average growth rate close to 3%. In 2015 only three industries
accounted for 37% of total energy use in Brazil: Transport, Food & Beverages, and Electricity, Gas,
and Water. In these industries the share of the energy used and produced domestically was higher
than the average (85.6%, 84.5% and 94.5% of the total, respectively). In contrast, other industries were
increasingly reliant on foreign energy. Thus, the share of domestic use of energy produced abroad was
higher than 20% in Textiles and Wearing Apparel, Electrical and Machinery, Transport Equipment and
Construction. This fact extends the problem of energy-related emissions mitigation from the national
to the global level.