Impact of final consumption on CO<SUB align="right">2 emissions in Vietnam

As a country vulnerable to climate change impacts, the rapid increase in CO2 emissions in Vietnam recently poses a risk to achieve sustainable growth targets. In this study, the changes in Vietnam's greenhouse gas emissions during two periods, 2007–2012 and 2012–2016, were examined through 60 selected paths in each period using the environmental input-output (EIO) model and the structural path decomposition (SPD) method. The results showed that final consumption activities played a more important role in CO2 emissions than emission intensity and input-output structure did. Moreover, the study also revealed that while the direct impact of final consumption demand on economic sectors led to a more significant increase in emissions, the indirect impact, in contrast, showed significant potential for reducing emissions as the supply chain expands amidst the country's industrialisation and modernisation. Based on the study results, some key policy implications have been proposed.