Long, Yin;
Yoshida, Yoshikuni;
Liu, Qiaoling;
Guan, Dabo;
Zheng, Heran;
Li, Yuan;
Gasparatos, Alexandros;
(2021)
Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
Communications Earth & Environment
, 2
, Article 125. 10.1038/s43247-021-00194-8.
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Abstract
Unexpected events such as economic crises and natural disasters can have profound implications for energy systems and climate change mitigation efforts at different levels. Here we explore the national and regional carbon emission patterns (and their drivers) for the main economic sectors in Japan between 2007 and 2015, a period shaped by the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Following the 2011 earthquake the previously decreasing regional emissions patterns started increasing in practically all regions except Hokkaido. This was mainly due to growing coal use particularly in the Kyushu, Chugoku and Kansai regions. Furthermore, most regions experienced shifts in the dominance of different drivers of emissions over time, with a stronger initial impact from economic effects after the 2008 financial crisis, followed by energy structure after the 2011 earthquake, and then by economic effects and energy intensity. These results offer a more nuanced understanding of how individual events can affect emissions at different periods and levels (national vs. regional) to inform the design of climate change mitigation strategies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s43247-021-00194-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00194-8 |
| 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/. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Physical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Multidisciplinary, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, Geology, CLEAN-COAL TECHNOLOGIES, DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS, DRIVING FORCES, CO2 EMISSIONS, ENERGY-CONSUMPTION, DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, CHINA, INDUSTRY, TARGETS, COSTS |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143131 |
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