Awards & Honors

Dr. Yuli Shan Wins Germany 2018 Green Talents Award

(Green Talents)

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will hold the 2018 Green Talents award ceremony in Berlin on October 22, honoring 25 outstanding young researchers from around the world for their important contributions to sustainable development. CEADs team member Dr. Yuli Shan has received this award and has been interviewed and covered by Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily Online, the Chinese Embassy, CGTN (China Global Television Network), and other major media outlets.

Yuli Shan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. He previously graduated from Fudan University and the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on carbon emissions accounting for human activities and sustainable development at the city scale. He has published more than 30 papers in leading journals including Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, and Applied Energy.

The Green Talents jury highly praised Shan's expertise in sustainable development and his development and application of carbon emissions accounting methods at the city scale. His recently published Science Advances paper, "City-level climate change mitigation in China," has attracted broad attention in the academic community. Using more than 180 Chinese cities as examples, the paper calculates city-level carbon emission inventories and analyzes industrialization pathways. It proposes that different cities should fully consider their natural resource endowments and existing development paths, and develop bottom-up low-carbon development roadmaps tailored to each type of city. The work has strong scientific and policy significance.

The Green Talents Award was launched in 2009 with the support of Federal Minister of Education and Research Wanka, and this year marks its tenth edition. The focus this year is "high potentials in sustainable development." The award recognizes young researchers with outstanding research contributions in the field of sustainable development. To date, 232 researchers from more than 50 countries and regions have received the award, including 25 Chinese scholars, making China the country with the largest number of awardees. This is the second time a CEADs team member has received the honor, following Dr. Zhu Liu in 2016. In this year's Green Talents selection, a senior expert jury selected 25 promising researchers from 736 applicants from more than 100 countries.

The awardees visited Germany from October 13 to 26 for a two-week science forum. The itinerary included visits to renowned research institutions, including the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and VAUDE, an innovative outdoor equipment provider in the field of sustainability. The awardees are able to build connections with the research community and exchange ideas with senior innovators, laying a foundation for future collaboration. In 2019, they will also be invited back to Germany to carry out fully funded research projects at research institutions of their choice.

Selected representative papers by Yuli Shan in carbon emissions accounting and urban sustainable development

Shan, Y., et al. (2018) City-level climate change mitigation in China. Science Advances, 4, eaaq0390.

Shan, Y., et al. (2018) China CO2 emission accounts 1997-2015. Scientific Data, 5, 170201.

Shan, Y., et al. (2016) New provincial CO2 emission inventories in China based on apparent energy consumption data and updated emission factors. Applied Energy, 184, 742-750. (ESI Hot paper / Highly cited paper)

Zheng, H., Shan, Y.*, et al. (2018) How modifications of China's energy data affect carbon mitigation targets. Energy Policy, 116, 337-343.

Shan, Y., et al. (2017) Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 161, 1215-1225.

Shan, Y., et al. (2017) Energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Tibet and its cities in 2014. Earth's Future, 5, 854-864. (Cover Article)

Zhou, Y., Shan, Y.*, et al. (2018) Emissions and low-carbon development in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area cities and their surroundings. Applied Energy, 228, 1683-1692.

Xu, X., Huo, H., Liu, J.*, Shan, Y.*, et al. (2017) Patterns of CO2 emissions in 18 central Chinese cities from 2000 to 2014. Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, 529-540.