China CO2 emission accounts 1997–2015
By Yuli Shan, D. Guan, Heran Zheng, Jiamin Ou, Yuan Li, Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Zhu Liu, Qiang Zhang. Scientific Data, 2018
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China is the world’s top energy consumer and CO2 emitter, accounting for 30% of global emissions. Compiling an accurate accounting of China’s CO2 emissions is the first step in implementing reduction policies. However, no annual, officially published emissions data exist for China. The current emissions estimated by academic institutes and scholars exhibit great discrepancies. The gap between the different emissions estimates is approximately equal to the total emissions of the Russian Federation (the 4th highest emitter globally) in 2011. In this study, we constructed the time-series of CO2 emission inventories for China and its 30 provinces. We followed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions accounting method with a territorial administrative scope. The inventories include energy-related emissions (17 fossil fuels in 47 sectors) and process-related emissions (cement production). The first version of our dataset presents emission inventories from 1997 to 2015. We will update the dataset annually. The uniformly formatted emission inventories provide data support for further emission-related research as well as emissions reduction policy-making in China. Design Type(s) time series design • data integration objective Measurement Type(s) carbon dioxide emission process Technology Type(s) computational modeling technique Factor Type(s) fuel • carbon dioxide emission Sample Characteristic(s) China • coal • hydrocarbon gas • oil • petroleum • paraffin • fuel oil • liquefied natural gas • natural gas • manufacturing process Design Type(s) time series design • data integration objective Measurement Type(s) carbon dioxide emission process Technology Type(s) computational modeling technique Factor Type(s) fuel • carbon dioxide emission Sample Characteristic(s) China • coal • hydrocarbon gas • oil • petroleum • paraffin • fuel oil • liquefied natural gas • natural gas • manufacturing process Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change
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- China's “Exported Carbon” Peak: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications (2018, methodology): “These data sources have been widely used in researching China’s carbon emissions (Jotzo et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2015; Shan et al., 2018).”
- China's Energy Consumption in the New Normal (2018, methodology): “GTAP provides global multiregional input-output tables and have been widely used in energy and environmental analysis (Meng et al., 2018; Shan et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2017).”
- Carbon emission imbalances and the structural paths of Chinese regions (2018, methodology): “The CO2 emissions produced by fossil fuel combustion were estimated in this study using the method in the previous study [43].”