The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000–2011 emissions

By Zbigniew Klimont, Steven J. Smith, Janusz Cofala. 2013

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The evolution of global and regional anthropogenic SO2 emissions in the last decade has been estimated through a bottom-up calculation. After increasing until about 2006, we estimate a declining trend continuing until 2011. However, there is strong spatial variability, with North America and Europe continuing to reduce emissions, with an increasing role of Asia and international shipping. China remains a key contributor, but the introduction of stricter emission limits followed by an ambitious program of installing flue gas desulfurization on power plants resulted in a significant decline in emissions from the energy sector and stabilization of total Chinese SO2 emissions. Comparable mitigation strategies are not yet present in several other Asian countries and industrial sectors in general, while emissions from international shipping are expected to start declining soon following an international agreement to reduce the sulfur content of fuel oil. The estimated trends in global SO2 emissions are within the range of representative concentration pathway (RCP) projections and the uncertainty previously estimated for the year 2005.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Automotive Engineering, Environmental Engineering

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How does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Pollution? Toward a Better Understanding of the Direct and Conditional Effects (2015, unknown): “24 Several debates exist on the calculation methods and the estimated trends for SO2 and NOx series (e.g., Klimont et al. 2013).”
Cleaning up the air: effectiveness of air quality policy for SO 2 and NO x emissions in China (2016, background): “China alone is responsible for about 30 % of the total global emissions of SO2 into the atmosphere (Klimont et al., 2013), while over 90 % of the SO2 emissions are caused by coal consumption in China (Chen and Xu, 2010).”
Decadal climate prediction: an update from the trenches (2014, result): “…et al. 2010) since the RCP scenarios all provide estimates of aerosol removal that could be different from recent observations (Shindell et al. 2012, though there are indications that recent observed sulfate aerosol concentrations are comparable to those in the RCP scenarios (Klimont et al., 2013).”
Climate and socio-economic scenarios for climate change research and assessment: reconciling the new with the old (2014, unknown): “The reasons for this include 1) that the RCPs tend to include both climate policy and air pollution control and 2) that since the publication of SRES, emissions in many developing countries have decreased more rapidly than expected (see for instance Klimont et al. 2013).”
Explosive growth in African combustion emissions from 2005 to 2030 (2014, methodology): “Only global inventories have been published so far, and these have been used for air quality and climate change modeling in Africa (Bond et al 2004, Streets et al 2004, Junker and Liousse 2008, Klimont et al 2009, Lamarque et al 2010, Granier et al 2011, Smith et al 2011, Klimont et al 2013).”
Better air for better health: Forging synergies in policies for energy access, climate change and air pollution (2013, background): “As a policy response to growing concern over air pollution, OECD countries have already implemented stringent air quality controls for ambient air quality and many large developing countries are increasingly following suit (Klimont et al., 2013).”
Use of Satellite Observations for Long-Term Exposure Assessment of Global Concentrations of Fine Particulate Matter (2014, result): “These trends are generally consistent with changes in anthropogenic emissions (Klimont et al. 2013; Kurokawa et al. 2013) and increasing sulfate–nitrate–ammonium concentrations as described in Boys et al.”