Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China

Shan, Yuli, Guan, Dabo, Liu, Jianghua, Mi, Zhifu, Liu, Zhu, Liu, Jingru, Schroeder, Heike, Cai, Bofeng, Chen, Yang, Shao, Shuai and Zhang, Qiang (2017) Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 161. pp. 1215-1225. ISSN 0959-6526

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Abstract

China is the world's largest energy consumer and CO2 emitter. Cities contribute 85% of the total CO2 emissions in China and thus are considered as the key areas for implementing policies designed for climate change adaption and CO2 emission mitigation. However, the emission inventory construction of Chinese cities has not been well researched, mainly owing to the lack of systematic statistics and poor data quality. Focusing on this research gap, we developed a set of methods for constructing CO2 emissions inventories for Chinese cities based on energy balance table. The newly constructed emission inventory is compiled in terms of the definition provided by the IPCC territorial emission accounting approach and covers 47 socioeconomic sectors, 17 fossil fuels and 9 primary industry products, which is corresponding with the national and provincial inventory. In the study, we applied the methods to compile CO2 emissions inventories for 24 common Chinese cities and examined uncertainties of the inventories. Understanding the emissions sources in Chinese cities is the basis for many climate policy and goal research in the future.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	co2 emissions inventory,energy balance table,chinese cities,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Climate Change Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Globalisation and CSR University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2017 05:05
Last Modified:	21 May 2025 23:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63762
DOI:	10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.075

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