CEADs Releases China National and Provincial Emissions and Energy Inventories for 1997-2022
Against the backdrop of the dual-carbon goals and an evolving global climate governance landscape, accurate, transparent, and comparable carbon emissions inventories have become an essential foundation for assessing mitigation potential, advancing green transformation, and strengthening international cooperation. In rapidly developing economies, however, fast growth in energy consumption and carbon emissions, together with differences in accounting methods and scopes, has reduced comparability across datasets and limited robust policy assessment. A unified carbon emissions inventory covering national and provincial levels is therefore especially important.
Recently, the CEADs team officially released China national and provincial energy and carbon emissions inventories for 1997-2022. The inventories cover China and 30 provinces, systematically recording and accounting for fossil energy consumption and the resulting carbon dioxide emissions. They are disaggregated into 47 socioeconomic sectors and include emissions from the combustion of 17 fossil fuels as well as process emissions related to cement production, providing fine-grained information by region, sector, and energy type.
This data update continues the established accounting methods and scope used in previous releases, forming a continuous long time series and ensuring methodological consistency, comparable boundaries, and comparable results. The data are available for free download from the CEADs official website (www.ceads.net).
The figure below shows the trend in carbon emissions by energy type in China from 1997 to 2022:
