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Emerging economies have become 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 targets, emerging economies will also face more serious emission-reduction challenges under the Paris Agreement. Under the dual pressure of global climate action goals and their own economic and social development, it is becoming more urgent for emerging economies to achieve a low-carbon transition. Many emerging economies have already proposed emission-reduction targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), but they still lack the national, regional, and sectoral carbon emission baseline data needed to achieve those targets.

Against this backdrop, with support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, UK Research and Innovation, the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, and other institutions, the China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) team at Tsinghua University 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 report written by the team, Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2024, covers carbon emissions data at the national and regional levels for emerging economies, and also accounts for carbon dioxide emissions by detailed energy type and industrial sector.

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