CEADs Release: Latest Carbon Emission Inventories for China and 30 Provinces and Municipalities, 2016-2017
Data are the foundation of research on climate change. Accurate accounting of national and regional carbon dioxide emissions is a prerequisite for subsequent research and for the development of low-carbon emission reduction policies. The CEADs database has long been committed to building an open, transparent, comparable, verifiable, and free China carbon accounting database. Recently, the CEADs team published the article "China CO2 emission accounts 2016-2017" in Scientific Data, supplementing and updating the previously published carbon dioxide emission inventories for 1997-2015 and officially releasing the latest 2016-2017 data for China and 30 provinces and municipalities.
The newly released emission inventories continue to use the same accounting methods as previous studies. They are calculated based on the latest energy statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, with emission factors derived from a carbon-specific survey. The inventories cover emissions related to fossil fuel combustion and emissions related to cement production processes. Fossil fuel-related emissions are calculated for 17 energy types and 47 socioeconomic sectors. The inventories include six datasets:
1. National-scale energy inventories (2016/2017)
2. Provincial-scale energy inventories (30 provinces, 2016/2017)
3. National-scale sectoral emission inventories (2016/2017)
4. National-scale apparent emission inventories (2016/2017)
5. Provincial-scale sectoral emission inventories (30 provinces, 2016/2017)
6. Provincial-scale apparent emission inventories (30 provinces, 2016/2017)
Compared with other datasets, the accounting results in this study are lower and closer to China's officially published emissions data, with an error range of -5.81% to 1.98%. The confidence interval fitted using a Monte Carlo model is 97.5%.
The data can be downloaded for free from http://www.ceads.net/data/. When using the data, please cite the paper "Shan, Y., Huang, Q., Guan, D., Hubacek, H. China CO2 emission accounts 2016-2017. Sci Data 7, 54 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0393-y".