Lost carbon emissions: the role of non-manufacturing 'other industries' and refining in industrial energy use and carbon emissions in IEA countries

摘要

ew present a review of trends in energy use and output in branches of industry not often studied in detail: petroleum refining and what we call the other industries - agriculture, mining, and construction. From a sample of IEA countries we analyze eight with the most complete data from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s. We carry out a decomposition analysis of changes in energy use and carbon emissions in the "other industries" sector. We also review briefly the impact of including refining in the evolution of manufacturing energy use, usually studied without refining. Despite many data problems, we present out results as a way of enticing others to study these important "lost" sectors more carefully.