TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China
AU - Shan, Yuli
AU - Guan, Dabo
AU - Liu, Jianghua
AU - Mi, Zhifu
AU - Liu, Zhu
AU - Liu, Jingru
AU - Schroeder, Heike
AU - Cai, Bofeng
AU - Chen, Yang
AU - Shao, Shuai
AU - Zhang, Qiang
PY - 2017/9/10
Y1 - 2017/9/10
N2 -
China is the world's largest energy consumer and CO
2
emitter. Cities contribute 85% of the total CO
2
emissions in China and thus are considered as the key areas for implementing policies designed for climate change adaption and CO
2
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 CO
2
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 CO
2
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.
AB -
China is the world's largest energy consumer and CO
2
emitter. Cities contribute 85% of the total CO
2
emissions in China and thus are considered as the key areas for implementing policies designed for climate change adaption and CO
2
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 CO
2
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 CO
2
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.
UR - https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/69dec812-a32f-4d85-8ca7-875df392539a
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.075
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.075
M3 - Article
SN - 0959-6526
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
ER -