Environmental Impact of Consumption by Czech Households: Hybrid Input-Output Analysis Linked to Household Consumption Data

We find that emissions attributable to households are not distributed evenly - while the first expenditure decile of households is responsible for less than 4% of all emissions, the tenth decile is responsible for 20-24%. Consumption of services and goods is least emission intensive, while use of electricity, heating, and transportation remains responsible for the major part of emissions. The most important factor of emissions attributable to household consumption is total expenditures; the expenditure elasticity of emissions is about 0.8, but we identify consumption groups which emissions are less sensitive to total expenditures (electricity, heating and food) and more sensitive (transportation, goods).