Does consistency with detailed national data matter for calculating carbon footprints with global multi-regional input-output tables? A comparative analysis for Belgium based on a structural decomposition

Consistency with detailed national data is an important challenge when using multi-regional input-output (MRIO) tables for carbon footprint analysis at the national level. This article presents carbon footprint calculations for Belgium with original and adapted MRIO tables from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) project. For constructing the adapted tables, we have reproduced the MRIO construction process of WIOD replacing source data for Belgium by detailed supply-and-use table data from national sources and keeping these unchanged in the balancing phase. The novelty of our approach is th... Mehr ...