The Impacts of Carbon Tariff on Green Supply Chain Design

Yuan Zhou, Dah Chuan Gong, Boray Huang, Brett A. Peters

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Abstract

With the growing awareness of global warming, many companies worldwide are improving their supply chain sustainability, under pressure from the government or their own shareholders. However, not all countries around the world equally emphasize the threat. For example, some countries still have not implemented any carbon dioxide emission regulations to address this problem. Carbon regulations in only subglobal areas may result in even higher global emissions because of carbon leakage. One possible approach to cope with the carbon leakage problem is to impose carbon tariffs on the goods from unregulated countries. In this paper, a mathematical model is built to explore the impacts of carbon tariff imposition on the supply chain network design, where the carbon tariff is imposed when the goods flow from unregulated countries to regulated countries. Moreover, our paper provides a complete experimental study by applying this model in a real case study, Company G, a major Taiwan-based multinational company in the electronic products industry. The outcomes demonstrate the conditions where the introduction of carbon tariffs forces firms from unregulated countries to take actions to reduce carbon emissions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1542-1555
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Volume14
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jul 2017

Keywords

  • Carbon emissions
  • carbon leakage
  • carbon tariff
  • Green supply chain design
  • member society and nonmember society

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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