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Climate change is one of the major global challenges facing humanity. Since China proposed its dual carbon goals, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to building carbon accounting systems, and have clearly called for establishing and improving standards and measurement systems for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Under the new landscape of global climate governance, carbon emissions accounting has become an important foundation for accurately understanding future carbon emissions trends, effectively carrying out carbon reduction work, and promoting a green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society. For emerging economies where carbon emissions statistical methods and data remain incomplete, it is especially important to establish a systematic, complete, and transparent carbon emissions accounting system.

On October 25, 2022, the Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2022 will be officially released in Beijing. The launch event is co-hosted by the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, and the Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University. The event will introduce the main contents of the report in depth and hold discussions on its key findings, with the aim of providing data and scientific support for developing countries to coordinate and achieve their dual carbon goals at an early date.

Organizers

Guiding organization: The Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21

Hosts: Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University; Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University

Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report

Emerging economies have been important drivers of global economic development in recent years and major contributors to the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions. As major emitters including the United States, the European Union, and China have successively announced carbon neutrality goals, emerging economies will also face more severe emissions reduction challenges under the Paris Agreement. Under the dual pressure of global climate action goals and their own economic and social development needs, the low-carbon transition of emerging economies has become even more urgent. Many emerging economies have already proposed emissions reduction targets in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), but they still lack the basic carbon emissions data at national, regional, and sectoral levels needed to achieve those targets.

Against this background, the China Emission Accounts and Datasets team at Tsinghua University (CEADs), with support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, UK Research Councils, the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, and other institutions, organized nearly one thousand Chinese and international scholars to collect, verify, and compile multi-scale carbon accounting inventories and socioeconomic and trade databases covering China and other developing economies through data crowdsourcing. The team's Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2022 covers carbon emissions data at national and regional levels for emerging economies, and also accounts for carbon dioxide emissions by detailed energy types and different industrial sectors.

Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University

To conduct in-depth research on the laws governing changes in the Earth system and the impacts of human activities on the Earth system, and to cultivate high-level talent for China and the world in responding to global change, Tsinghua University established the Center for Earth System Science in March 2009. In November 2016, the Department of Earth System Science was established on the basis of the center. The mission of Tsinghua's Earth science development is to explore new knowledge in atmospheric, terrestrial, oceanic, and related physical, chemical, biological, socioeconomic, and other fields; to contribute to maintaining the security and sustainability of the Earth's ecological environment; and to remain at the forefront of Earth science worldwide.

Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University has built a strong foundation for developing the Institute for Carbon Neutrality and has achieved a number of advanced innovative outcomes in several core carbon neutrality research fields. On this basis, Tsinghua University officially established the Institute for Carbon Neutrality on September 22, 2021. The institute focuses on building a technological innovation center for carbon neutrality, a high-end think tank and strategy center, a training base for high-level talent, and a platform for cooperation, exchange, and communication. It also draws on the university's strengths in basic research and interdisciplinary integration to promote joint innovation across multiple schools and disciplines, concentrate superior resources, accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies for carbon neutrality, and tackle a number of critical carbon neutrality technologies.

Participation

2022/10/25

The launch event will be held both onsite and via online livestream, and the meeting language will be Chinese. Participants are welcome to attend onsite at the Jinyuan Hall of the Beijing Xijiao Hotel. You may also scan the QR code below to watch the livestream. We look forward to meeting you at the launch of the Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2022.