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Mapping global carbon footprint in China
Developing localized climate mitigation strategies needs an understanding of how global consumption drives local carbon dioxide (CO(2)) emissions with a fine spatial resolution. There is no study that provides a spatially explicit mapping of global carbon footprint in China―the world’s largest CO(2)...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7206023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15883-9 |
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author | Yang, Yuantao Qu, Shen Cai, Bofeng Liang, Sai Wang, Zhaohua Wang, Jinnan Xu, Ming |
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description | Developing localized climate mitigation strategies needs an understanding of how global consumption drives local carbon dioxide (CO(2)) emissions with a fine spatial resolution. There is no study that provides a spatially explicit mapping of global carbon footprint in China―the world’s largest CO(2) emitter―simultaneously considering both international and interprovincial trade. Here we map CO(2) emissions in China driven by global consumption in 2012 at a high spatial resolution (10 km × 10 km) using a detailed, firm-level emission inventory. Our results show that the carbon footprints of foreign regions in China are concentrated in key manufacturing hubs, including the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and North China Plain. Approximately 1% of the land area holds 75% of the global carbon footprint in China. The carbon footprint hotspots in China identified are the key places in which collaborative mitigation efforts between China and downstream parties that drive those emissions. |
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spelling | pubmed-72060232020-05-13 Mapping global carbon footprint in China Yang, Yuantao Qu, Shen Cai, Bofeng Liang, Sai Wang, Zhaohua Wang, Jinnan Xu, Ming Nat Commun Article Developing localized climate mitigation strategies needs an understanding of how global consumption drives local carbon dioxide (CO(2)) emissions with a fine spatial resolution. There is no study that provides a spatially explicit mapping of global carbon footprint in China―the world’s largest CO(2) emitter―simultaneously considering both international and interprovincial trade. Here we map CO(2) emissions in China driven by global consumption in 2012 at a high spatial resolution (10 km × 10 km) using a detailed, firm-level emission inventory. Our results show that the carbon footprints of foreign regions in China are concentrated in key manufacturing hubs, including the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and North China Plain. Approximately 1% of the land area holds 75% of the global carbon footprint in China. The carbon footprint hotspots in China identified are the key places in which collaborative mitigation efforts between China and downstream parties that drive those emissions. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7206023/ /pubmed/32382018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15883-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access 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/. |
spellingShingle | Article Yang, Yuantao Qu, Shen Cai, Bofeng Liang, Sai Wang, Zhaohua Wang, Jinnan Xu, Ming Mapping global carbon footprint in China |
title | Mapping global carbon footprint in China |
title_full | Mapping global carbon footprint in China |
title_fullStr | Mapping global carbon footprint in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Mapping global carbon footprint in China |
title_short | Mapping global carbon footprint in China |
title_sort | mapping global carbon footprint in china |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7206023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15883-9 |
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