Cooperation & Team Updates

Emerging economies have become important drivers of global economic development in recent years, and they are also major contributors to the growth of global CO2 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 stringent emissions reduction challenges under the Paris Agreement. Under the dual pressures of global climate action goals and their own economic and social development needs, the low-carbon transition of emerging economies has become increasingly urgent. Many emerging economies have already set emissions reduction targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), but they still lack the national, regional, and sectoral carbon emissions baseline data needed to achieve those targets.

Against this backdrop, 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, UK Research and Innovation, the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, and other institutions, 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 team's Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2025 not only covers carbon emissions data at the national and regional levels for emerging economies, but also accounts for CO2 emissions by detailed energy type and different industrial sectors.

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