China carbon emission accounts 2020-2021
University of Birmingham · University of Groningen · +2 more institutions
Abstract
In the past a few years, the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has significantly changed global emission patterns and increased the challenges in emission reduction. However, a comprehensive analysis of the most recent trends of China's carbon emissions has not been conducted due to a lack of up-to-date emission accounts by regions and sectors. This study compiles the latest CO2 emission inventories for China and its 30 provinces during the epidemic (2020−2021), following the administrative-territorial approach from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Our inventories cover energy-related emissions from 17 types of fossil fuel combustion and cement production across 47 economic sectors. To provide…
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5Topics & keywords
- China
- Context (archaeology)
- Greenhouse gas
- Carbon neutrality
- Natural resource economics
- Climate change
- Consumption (sociology)
- Emission inventory