This can be done by ongoing multiplication of input-output matrices in which each cell Xij contains the amount of product that economy-sector j uses from economy-sector i. Along these lines one can estimate (e.g. up to the mining needed for sector j) the total emissions that have taken place for a certain production, quite coarsely because aggregated to product groups, to working methods, and to energy forms used.

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