Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

Y Yang, Y Shi, W Sun, J Chang, J Zhu, L Chen… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an
important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Estimation of China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects

S Piao, Y He, X Wang, F Chen - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
China announced its national goal to reach the peak of carbon emission by 2030 and
achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, during the General Assembly of the United Nations in …

Forest expansion dominates China's land carbon sink since 1980

Z Yu, P Ciais, S Piao, RA Houghton, C Lu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon budget accounting relies heavily on Food and Agriculture Organization land-use
data reported by governments. Here we develop a new land-use and cover-change …

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 …

Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data

J Wang, L Feng, PI Palmer, Y Liu, S Fang, H Bösch… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Limiting the rise in global mean temperatures relies on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions and on the removal of CO2 by land carbon sinks. China is currently the single …

The United States and China on the paths and policies to carbon neutrality

Z Wu, X Huang, R Chen, X Mao, X Qi - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid economic development has highlighted the global climate change problem and
carbon dioxide emissions have brought challenges to global climate change. The combined …

Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

X Tong, M Brandt, Y Yue, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed
forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal …

Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

X Tang, X Zhao, Y Bai, Z Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
China's terrestrial ecosystems have functioned as important carbon sinks. However,
previous estimates of carbon budgets have included large uncertainties owing to the …

Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010

F Lu, H Hu, W Sun, J Zhu, G Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The long-term stressful utilization of forests and grasslands has led to ecosystem
degradation and C loss. Since the late 1970s China has launched six key national …