City-level climate change mitigation in China
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00103217" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00103217 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaaq0390.full" target="_blank" >http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaaq0390.full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390" target="_blank" >10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
City-level climate change mitigation in China
Original language description
As national efforts to reduce CO2 emissions intensify, policy-makers need increasingly specific, subnational information about the sources of CO2 and the potential reductions and economic implications of different possible policies. This is particularly true in China, a large and economically diverse country that has rapidly industrialized and urbanized and that has pledged under the Paris Agreement that its emissions will peak by 2030. We present new, citylevel estimates of CO2 emissions for 182 Chinese cities, decomposed into 17 different fossil fuels, 46 socioeconomic sectors, and 7 industrial processes. We find that more affluent cities have systematically lower emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP), supported by imports from less affluent, industrial cities located nearby. In turn, clusters of industrial cities are supported by nearby centers of coal or oil extraction. Whereas policies directly targeting manufacturing and electric power infrastructure would drastically undermine the GDP of industrial cities, consumptionbased policiesmight allow emission reductions to be subsidized by those with greater ability to pay. In particular, sectorbased analysis of each city suggests that technological improvements could be a ractical and effectivemeans of reducing emissions while maintaining growth and the current economic structure and energy system. We explore city-level emission reductions under three scenarios of technological progress to show that substantial reductions (up to 31%) are possible by updating a disproportionately small fraction of existing infrastructure.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science advances
ISSN
2375-2548
e-ISSN
2375-2548
Volume of the periodical
4
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000443175500016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85049171318