Danish companies emit less CO₂ when they relocate certain tasks abroad. At the same time, emissions rise correspondingly in those countries. However, global emissions increase when companies are under pressure from cheap imports from China. This is shown by new research from the University of Copenhagen.
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well it obviously takes more emissions to build something in China and then ship it to crackaville than to build the same thing in crackaville and consume it in the same country