Cooperation & Team Updates

Emerging economies have become an important driver of global economic development in recent years and a significant contributor 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 targets and their own economic and social development, low-carbon transition in emerging economies has become increasingly urgent. Many emerging economies have already proposed emissions-reduction targets in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), but they still lack the national, regional, and sector-level carbon emissions baseline data needed to achieve those targets.

Against this background, the China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) team at Tsinghua University, with support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the 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 1,000 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 authored the Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2023, which not only covers carbon emissions data at the national and regional levels for emerging economies, but also accounts for carbon dioxide emissions by detailed energy type and by different industrial sectors.

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