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Research in Data Envelopment Analysis has created rankings of the ecologicalefficiency of countries' economies. At the same time, research in economiccomplexity has provided new methods to depict productive structures and hasanalyzed how economic diversification and sophistication affect environmentalpollution indicators. However, no research so far has compared the ecologicalefficiency of countries with similar productive structures and levels ofeconomic complexity, combining the strengths of both approaches. In thisarticle, we use data on 774 different types of exports, CO2 emissions, and theecological footprint of 99 countries to create a relative ecological pollutionranking (REPR). Moreover, we use methods from network science to reveal abenchmark network of the best learning partners based on country pairs with alarge extent of export similarity, yet significant differences in pollutionvalues. This is important because it helps to reveal adequate benchmarkcountries for efficiency improvements and cleaner production, considering thatcountries may specialize in substantially different types of economicactivities. Finally, the article (i) illustrates large efficiency improvementswithin current global output levels, (ii) helps to identify countries that canbest learn from each other, and (iii) improves the information base ininternational negotiations for the sake of a clean global production system.

Comparing cars with apples? Identifying the appropriate benchmark countries for relative ecological pollution rankings and international learning