{
    "abstract": "The shift in value chain trade from globalization to regionalization has provided developing countries with opportunities for value chain upgrading and has influenced trade-related embodied carbon emissions. This study uses panel data on trade and carbon emissions between China and 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies from 1991 to 2021, applying a fixed-effects model to analyze changes in embodied carbon emissions. The focus is on China, the largest developing country, as it participates in the APEC regional value chain in different ways.It is confirmed that China is leveraging regional value chains to achieve industrial transformation from the perspective of value added. Subsequently, indicators for forward and backward participation in regional value chains are constructed, recalculating their impacts on carbon emissions in terms of scale, structure, and technology. The results indicate that China's forward participation exhibits a U-shaped relationship with trade-related embodied carbon emissions, while backward participation demonstrates a negative correlation. Industrial heterogeneity analysis further highlights distinct impacts across high-tech, low-tech, pollution-intensive, and non-pollution-intensive sectors.Furthermore, scale effects, structural effects, and technological effects represent distinct pathways influencing trade-related carbon emissions. These findings can assist developing countries advance sustainable development and achieve carbon peak goals.",
    "authors": [
        {
            "affiliation": "School of Economics, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China.\nSchool of Economics, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China.",
            "firstname": "Yeying",
            "initials": "Y",
            "lastname": "Wu"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": "School of Economics, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China.",
            "firstname": "Zheng",
            "initials": "Z",
            "lastname": "Lu"
        }
    ],
    "conclusions": null,
    "copyrights": "\u00a9 The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. All rights reserved. For commercial re-use, please contact reprints@oup.com for reprints and translation rights for reprints. All other permissions can be obtained through our RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site\u2014for further information please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.",
    "doi": "10.1093/inteam/vjaf054",
    "journal": "Integrated environmental assessment and management",
    "keywords": [
        "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)",
        "Embodied Carbon Emissions",
        "Regional Value Chains Participation",
        "Value added"
    ],
    "methods": null,
    "publication_date": "2025-04-27",
    "pubmed_id": "40286284",
    "results": null,
    "title": "The Path of Regional Value Chain Transformation and Emission Reduction: Evidence from China's Participation in APEC Value Chains.",
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}