| Title | Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China |
| Author | Liu, Zhu1,3  ; Guan, Dabo2,4,5; Wei, Wei6; Davis, Steven J.2,7; Ciais, Philippe8; Bai, Jin9; Peng, Shushi8,10,11; Zhang, Qiang4; Hubacek, Klaus12; Marland, Gregg13; Andres, Robert J.14; Crawford-Brown, Douglas15; Lin, Jintai16; Zhao, Hongyan4; Hong, Chaopeng4,17; Boden, Thomas A.14; Feng, Kuishuang12; Peters, Glen P.18; Xi, Fengming2,19; Liu, Junguo20,21,22 ; Li, Yuan5; Zhao, Yu23,24; Zeng, Ning25,26,27; He, Kebin17
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| Corresponding Author | Liu, Zhu |
| Publication Years | 2015-08-20
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| ISSN | 0028-0836
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| EISSN | 1476-4687
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| Volume | 524Issue:7565Pages:335-+ |
| Abstract | Nearly three-quarters of the growth in global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement production between 2010 and 2012 occurred in China(1,2). Yet estimates of Chinese emissions remain subject to large uncertainty; inventories of China's total fossil fuel carbon emissions in 2008 differ by 0.3 gigatonnes of carbon, or 15 per cent(1,3-5). The primary sources of this uncertainty are conflicting estimates of energy consumption and emission factors, the latter being uncertain because of very few actual measurements representative of the mix of Chinese fuels. Here we re-evaluate China's carbon emissions using updated and harmonized energy consumption and clinker production data and two new and comprehensive sets of measured emission factors for Chinese coal. We find that total energy consumption in China was 10 per cent higher in 2000-2012 than the value reported by China's national statistics(6), that emission factors for Chinese coal are on average 40 per cent lower than the default values recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(7), and that emissions from China's cement production are 45 per cent less than recent estimates(1,4). Altogether, our revised estimate of China's CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production is 2.49 gigatonnes of carbon (2 standard deviations = +/-7.3 per cent) in 2013, which is 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by other prominent inventories(1,4,8). Over the full period 2000 to 2013, our revised estimates are 2.9 gigatonnes of carbon less than previous estimates of China's cumulative carbon emissions(1,4). Our findings suggest that overestimation of China's emissions in 2000-2013 may be larger than China's estimated total forest sink in 1990-2007 (2.66 gigatonnes of carbon)(9) or China's land carbon sink in 2000-2009 (2.6 gigatonnes of carbon)(10). |
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| Language | English
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| SUSTech Authorship | Others
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| Funding Project | Economic and Social Research Council[ES/L016028/1]
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| WOS Research Area | Science & Technology - Other Topics
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| WOS Subject | Multidisciplinary Sciences
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| WOS Accession No | WOS:000359714000032
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| ESI Research Field | BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY;CLINICAL MEDICINE;MULTIDISCIPLINARY;PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE;ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY;SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL;MICROBIOLOGY;ECONOMICS BUSINESS;IMMUNOLOGY;MATERIALS SCIENCE;COMPUTER SCIENCE;SPACE SCIENCE;MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS;CHEMISTRY;NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR;PHYSICS;GEOSCIENCES;ENGINEERING
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Cited Times [WOS]:917
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| Document Type | Journal Article |
| Identifier | http://kc.sustech.edu.cn/handle/2SGJ60CL/29941 |
| Department | School of Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Affiliation | 1.Harvard Univ, John F Kennedy Sch Govt, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China 3.CALTECH, Resnick Sustainabil Inst, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA 4.Tsinghua Univ, Ctr Earth Syst Sci, Key Lab Earth Syst Modeling, Minist Educ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 5.Univ E Anglia, Sch Int Dev, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Adv Res Inst, CAS Key Lab Lowcarbon Convers Sci & Engn, Shanghai 201203, Peoples R China 7.Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Irvine, CA 92697 USA 8.CE Orme Merisiers, CEA CNRS UVSQ, Lab Sci Climat & Environm, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France 9.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Coal Chem, State Key Lab Coal Convers, Taiyuan 030001, Peoples R China 10.CNRS, F-38041 Grenoble, France 11.UJF Grenoble 1, LGGE, UMR5183, F-38041 Grenoble, France 12.Univ Maryland, Dept Geog Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA 13.Appalachian State Univ, Res Inst Environm Energy & Econ, Boone, NC 28608 USA 14.Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Carbon Dioxide Informat Anal Ctr, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA 15.Univ Cambridge, Dept Land Econ, Cambridge Ctr Climate Change Mitigat Res, Cambridge CB3 9EP, England 16.Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Lab Climate & Ocean Atmosphere Studies, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 17.Tsinghua Univ, Sch Environm, State Key Joint Lab Environm Simulat & Pollut C, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 18.CICERO, N-0318 Oslo, Norway 19.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Pollut Ecol & Environm Engn, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China 20.Beijing Forestry Univ, Sch Nat Conservat, Beijing 10083, Peoples R China 21.Int Inst Appl Syst Anal, Ecosyst Serv & Management Program, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria 22.South Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Environm Sci & Engn, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China 23.Nanjing Univ, State Key Lab Pollut Control& Resource Reuse, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 24.Nanjing Univ, Sch Environm, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 25.Univ Maryland, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA 26.Univ Maryland, Earth Syst Sci Interdisciplinary Ctr, College Pk, MD 20742 USA 27.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 |
Liu, Zhu,Guan, Dabo,Wei, Wei,et al. Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China[J]. NATURE,2015,524(7565):335-+.
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Liu, Zhu.,Guan, Dabo.,Wei, Wei.,Davis, Steven J..,Ciais, Philippe.,...&He, Kebin.(2015).Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China.NATURE,524(7565),335-+.
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Liu, Zhu,et al."Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China".NATURE 524.7565(2015):335-+.
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