The Effect of Industrial Activity Growth on Pollution in Yazd Province: a Regional Input-Output Approach

Ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the Millennium Development Goals, which depends on controlling the consumption of fossil fuels and the pollution caused by them. However, the goods and services produced in an economy are directly and indirectly involved in the emission of pollutants, especially carbon dioxide. Since the first step in dealing with a problem is to recognize the current situation, to investigate the interrelationships of economic activities and carbon dioxide emissions in Yazd province, first using the Industry-Specific FLQ Method (SFLQ), the Yazd province Input-Output table was extracted for the 2016 and then using the amount of energy consumption and emission coefficients, the amount of direct and indirect emissions of carbon dioxide and the effect of total pollution for each economic sector was calculated. The results show that in 2016 in Yazd province, sections "manufacture of non-metallic mineral products", "manufacture of base metals", "manufacture of coke, products of oil refining and nuclear fuel" and "manufacture of chemical materials and products" with a share of 89.93 percent, had the highest emissions. Indirect pollution also accounts for a larger share of total emissions in the province. In general, the results indicate an increase in pollution caused by energy consumption due to the production of goods and services in Yazd province.