Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China

Z Liu, Z Deng, G He, H Wang, X Zhang, J Lin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
China is currently the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2). China therefore has a
key role in global climate change mitigation. Policies and commitments are required to …

County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017

J Chen, M Gao, S Cheng, W Hou, M Song, X Liu, Y Liu… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
With the implementation of China's top-down CO2 emissions reduction strategy, the regional
differences should be considered. As the most basic governmental unit in China, counties …

Biophysical and economic constraints on China's natural climate solutions

N Lu, H Tian, B Fu, H Yu, S Piao, S Chen, Y Li… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions (NCS) are strategies for climate mitigation in the land sector that
increase carbon storage or avoid GHG emissions. Here we estimate China's historic NCS …

[HTML][HTML] Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement

C Le Quéré, RB Jackson, MW Jones, AJP Smith… - Nature climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Government policies during the COVID-19 pandemic have drastically altered patterns of
energy demand around the world. Many international borders were closed and populations …