Effects of Government Regulations on Under-Reporting of Carbon Emission Transfers by Enterprises in Supply Chains
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Analysis of Supply Chain Misstatements
2.2. Analysis of Government Intervention in Low-Carbon Supply Chains
2.3. Supply Chain Carbon Emission Transfer Analysis
3. Problem Description and Assumptions
- In a low-carbon supply chain, suppliers provide manufacturers with intermediate products, the outputs of which are equal to the market demand for the end products;
- The initial carbon emissions quota is relevant only to a single cycle. Therefore, any unused portion of the quota cannot be transferred to the next cycle;
- Except for the carbon emissions per unit of product in the supply chain, the remainder of the information is complete;
- The emission reductions of the suppliers and manufacturers are independent of each other;
- The emission reduction coefficients of the suppliers and manufacturers are equal to each other;
- Carbon emission reductions and transfers have no effect on manufacturers’ production costs, which have been set to zero here, for the convenience of calculation. The variables mentioned in this paper and their definitions are given in Table 1.
4. Model Construction and Analysis
4.1. Carbon-Free Market Scenario
4.2. Perfect Carbon Market
5. Numerical Analysis
6. Conclusions and Management Implications
6.1. Conclusions
6.2. Managemet Implications
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Definition |
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Factor of false reporting of carbon emissions per supplier | |
F | Fine that the government imposes on one unit of any carbon emissions exceeding the initial quotas |
Suppliers’ initial carbon emissions per unit of product | |
Manufacturers’ initial carbon emissions per unit of product | |
Production cost per unit of product | |
Carbon trading price | |
Intermediate product wholesale price | |
Product market sales price | |
Product market order quantity | |
Carbon emission transferred by suppliers | |
τ | Initial carbon quota allocation ratio (0 < τ < 1) |
θ | Sensitivity coefficients of demand to prices |
γ | Sensitivity coefficients of demand to emission reduction levels |
Carbon quota allocated by the government to manufacturers | |
Actual carbon emissions per unit product of suppliers | |
Actual carbon emissions per unit product of manfacturer | |
Initial carbon quota allocated by the government to suppliers | |
Carbon emission reduction per product of suppliers | |
Carbon emission reduction per product of manufacturers |
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Zhao, B.; Sun, L.; Gao, S. Effects of Government Regulations on Under-Reporting of Carbon Emission Transfers by Enterprises in Supply Chains. Sustainability 2022, 14, 9269. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159269
Zhao B, Sun L, Gao S. Effects of Government Regulations on Under-Reporting of Carbon Emission Transfers by Enterprises in Supply Chains. Sustainability. 2022; 14(15):9269. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159269
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhao, Biying, Licheng Sun, and Siying Gao. 2022. "Effects of Government Regulations on Under-Reporting of Carbon Emission Transfers by Enterprises in Supply Chains" Sustainability 14, no. 15: 9269. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159269