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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2016-176
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
01 Mar 2016
Status: this preprint was under review for the journal ACP but the revision was not accepted.
CO2 emissions inventory of Chinese cities
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 the key areas for implementing policies designed for climate change adaption and CO2 emission mitigation. However, understanding the CO2 emission status of Chinese cities remains a challenge, mainly owing to the lack of systematic statistics and poor data quality. This study presents a method for constructing a CO2 emissions inventory for Chinese cities in terms of the definition provided by the IPCC territorial emission accounting approach. We apply this method to compile CO2 emissions inventories for 20 Chinese cities. Each inventory covers 47 socioeconomic sectors, 20 energy types and 9 primary industry products. We find that cities are large emissions sources because of their intensive industrial activities, such as electricity generation, production for cement and other construction materials. Additionally, coal and its related products are the primary energy source to power Chinese cities, providing an average of 70 % of the total CO2 emissions. Understanding the emissions sources in Chinese cities using a concrete and consistent methodology is the basis for implementing any climate policy and goal.
How to cite. Shan, Y., Guan, D., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Liu, J., Schroeder, H., Chen, Y., Shao, S., Mi, Z., and Zhang, Q.: CO2 emissions inventory of Chinese cities, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2016-176, 2016.
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Yuli Shan
Tyndall centre for Climate Change Research, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Dabo Guan
Tyndall centre for Climate Change Research, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Jianghua Liu
Institute of Finance and Economics Research, School of Urban and Regional Science, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology Resnick Sustainability Institute, Pasadena CA 91125, USA
Jingru Liu
State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100085 Beijing, China
Heike Schroeder
Tyndall centre for Climate Change Research, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Yang Chen
Institute of Finance and Economics Research, School of Urban and Regional Science, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
Shuai Shao
Institute of Finance and Economics Research, School of Urban and Regional Science, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
Tyndall centre for Climate Change Research, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Qiang Zhang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Short summary
Cities contribute 85 % of the total CO2 emissions in China and thus are considered the key areas for implementing policies designed for climate change adaption and CO2 emission mitigation. This study presents a method for constructing a CO2 emissions inventory for Chinese cities in terms of the definition provided by the IPCC territorial emission accounting approach. We apply this method to compile CO2 emissions inventories for 20 Chinese cities and analyse their emission characteristic.
Cities contribute 85 % of the total CO2 emissions in China and thus are considered the key areas...
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