Shan, Y;
Guan, D;
Zheng, H;
Ou, J;
Li, Y;
Meng, J;
Mi, Z;
... Zhang, Q; + view all
(2018)
Data Descriptor: China CO2 emission accounts 1997-2015.
Scientific Data
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, Article 170201. 10.1038/sdata.2017.201.
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Abstract
China is the world’s top energy consumer and CO2 emitter, accounting for 30% of global emissions. Compiling an accurate accounting of China’s CO2 emissions is the first step in implementing reduction policies. However, no annual, officially published emissions data exist for China. The current emissions estimated by academic institutes and scholars exhibit great discrepancies. The gap between the different emissions estimates is approximately equal to the total emissions of the Russian Federation (the 4th highest emitter globally) in 2011. In this study, we constructed the time-series of CO2 emission inventories for China and its 30 provinces. We followed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions accounting method with a territorial administrative scope. The inventories include energy-related emissions (17 fossil fuels in 47 sectors) and process-related emissions (cement production). The first version of our dataset presents emission inventories from 1997 to 2015. We will update the dataset annually. The uniformly formatted emission inventories provide data support for further emission-related research as well as emissions reduction policy-making in China.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Data Descriptor: China CO2 emission accounts 1997-2015 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/sdata.2017.201 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.201 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files made available in this article. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, FIRED POWER-PLANTS, CARBON EMISSIONS, UNCERTAINTIES, INVENTORIES, INDUSTRY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042330 |
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