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Embodied CO₂ emissions of equity portfolios for Chinese asset managers

The 2015 Paris Agreement has set out the climate change target of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, which poses a serious challenge to countries to reduce emissions. As the world’s largest carbon emitter, pro...

**glei Wang, Zengkai Zhang, Danbo Chen, Dabo Guan in Scientific Data (2024)

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City level water withdrawal and scarcity accounts of China

In the context of China’s freshwater crisis high-resolution data are critical for sustainable water management and economic growth. Yet there is a dearth of data on water withdrawal and scarcity regardless of ...

Zongyong Zhang, Yuli Shan, Dandan Zhao, Martin R. Tillotson, Bofeng Cai… in Scientific Data (2024)

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Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets

Many economies set climate mitigation targets for 2020 at the 2009 15th Conference of the Parties conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Yet no retrospective rev...

Shu** Li, **g Meng, Klaus Hubacek, Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander… in Nature Climate Change (2024)

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Global supply chains amplify economic costs of future extreme heat risk

Evidence shows a continuing increase in the frequency and severity of global heatwaves^1,2, raising concerns about the future impacts of climate change and the associated socioeconomic costs^3,4. Here we develop a ...

Yida Sun, Shupeng Zhu, Dao** Wang, Jian** Duan, Hui Lu, Hao Yin, Chang Tan… in Nature (2024)

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Health–environment efficiency of diets shows nonlinear trends over 1990–2011

Understanding the impacts of diets on health and the environment, as well as their association with socio-economic development, is key to operationalize and monitor food systems shifts. Here we propose a healt...

Pan He, Zhu Liu, Giovanni Baiocchi, Dabo Guan, Yan Bai, Klaus Hubacek in Nature Food (2024)

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Large-scale photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara affect solar power generation potential globally

Globally, solar projects are being rapidly built or planned, particularly in high solar potential regions with high energy demand. However, their energy generation potential is highly related to the weather co...

**gchao Long, Zhengyao Lu, Paul A. Miller… in Communications Earth & Environment (2024)

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Projecting future carbon emissions from cement production in develo** countries

Achieving low-carbon development of the cement industry in the develo** countries is fundamental to global emissions abatement, considering the local construction industry’s rapid growth. However, there is c...

Danyang Cheng, David M. Reiner, Fan Yang, Can Cui, **g Meng… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Substantial increase in future fluvial flood risk projected in China’s major urban agglomerations

Urban land will face high fluvial flood risk against the background of climate change and urban expansion. The effect of urban spatial expansion, instead of densification of assets within existing urban cells,...

Ruijie Jiang, Hui Lu, Kun Yang, Deliang Chen… in Communications Earth & Environment (2023)

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Achieving decent living standards in emerging economies challenges national mitigation goals for CO₂ emissions

Emerging economies, low- and middle-income countries experiencing rapid population and GDP growth, face the challenge of improving their living standards while stabilizing CO₂ emissions to meet net-zero goals. In...

**gwen Huo, **g Meng, Heran Zheng, Priti Parikh, Dabo Guan in Nature Communications (2023)

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Author Correction: Supply chains create global benefits from improved vaccine accessibility

Dao** Wang, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Tianyang Lei, Yida Sun… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Carbon footprints of the equity portfolios of Chinese fund firms

Under the dual carbon goals in China, the transition to a net-zero carbon economy requires massive amounts of capital, which must be provided and facilitated by financial institutions. Yet, there are no unifie...

**glei Wang, Dabo Guan, Zengkai Zhang, Danbo Chen… in Communications Earth & Environment (2023)

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The narrowing gap in developed and develo** country emission intensities reduces global trade’s carbon leakage

International trade affects CO₂ emissions by redistributing production activities to places where the emission intensities are different from the place of consumption. This study focuses on the net emission chang...

**g Meng, **gwen Huo, Zengkai Zhang, Yu Liu, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan… in Nature Communications (2023)

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An interprovincial input–output database distinguishing firm ownership in China from 1997 to 2017

Input-Output (IO) data describing supply-demand relationships between buyers and sellers for goods and services within an economy have been used not only in economics but also in scientific, environmental, and...

Quanrun Chen, Yuning Gao, Chen Pan, Dingyi Xu, Kun Cai, Dabo Guan, Qi He… in Scientific Data (2023)

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Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies

Measuring the value chain carbon footprints of listed companies is essential for cumulative climate actions and climate-efficient capital allocation. We trace the carbon emissions embodied in the value chains ...

Zengkai Zhang, Jiaoyan Li, Dabo Guan in Nature Communications (2023)

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Supply chains create global benefits from improved vaccine accessibility

Ensuring a more equitable distribution of vaccines worldwide is an effective strategy to control global pandemics and support economic recovery. We analyze the socioeconomic effects - defined as health gains, ...

Dao** Wang, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Tianyang Lei, Yida Sun… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Introduction

This book proposes an appraisal methodology for the direct and indirect costs of the effects of natural disasters in a particular region and the resulting cascading events which follow in the multiregional/glo...

David Mendoza-Tinoco, Alfonso Mercado-Garcia… in Multiregional Flood Footprint Analysis (2023)