Facing the intensifying global climate change pressures and China’s strategic commitment to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, this study focuses on the multiple challenges faced by the Sichuan-Chongqing region, the economic core of southwes...
Based on the emission factor method and LMDI-LEAP model, this paper systematically studies the current situation, influencing factors and changing trend of carbon emissions from rural buildings in a typical village located in southern China. The resu...
This study combines convolutional neural network (CNN) recognition technology, Greenwich engineering software, and statistical yearbook methods to evaluate rural solar, wind, and biomass energy resources in pilot cities in China, respectively. The CN...
Household appliances constitute the second largest source of residential energy consumption in China, accounting for over 20% of the total and exhibiting a steady growth trend. Despite their substantial impact on energy demand and carbon emissions, a...
Global climate change imposes significant challenges on the ecological environment and human sustainability. Industrial parks, in line with the national climate change mitigation strategy, are key targets for low-carbon revolution within the industri...
With increasingly severe global climate change, reducing carbon emissions has become an important way to promote sustainable development. However, few scholars have researched carbon emissions and carbon reduction in the Huairou district, Beijing, Ch...
To identify the emission reduction potential and policy synergies of Tokyo’s road passenger and urban road freight transport under the “carbon neutrality target,” this paper constructs an assessment framework for megacities. First,...
Systematically predicting carbon emissions in the building sector is crucial for formulating effective policies and plans. However, the timing and potential peak emissions from urban buildings remain unclear. This research integrates socio-economic,...
4 November 2022
In the context of global warming and climate change, various international communities have set different reduction targets for carbon emissions. In 2020, China proposed that CO2 emissions will peak by 2030 and reached a critical period in which carb...
With the continuous expansion in China’s vehicle fleet, emissions of CO2 and air pollutants from the on-road transportation sector are widely projected to be rising, posing a challenge to realizing China’s targets of carbon peaking in 203...
This article used the Long-range Energy Alternative Planning and scenario-based analysis to investigate Rwanda’s future energy supply, the energy consumption and emitted GHGs from 2023 to 2053. Impacts of various energy policies are analyzed co...
Rapid urbanization in China is intensifying travel demand while making transport the nation’s third-largest source of carbon emissions. Anticipating continued growth in private-car fleets, this study integrates vehicle-stock forecasting with mu...
With the continuous increase in the number of vehicles, the proportion of carbon emissions from road traffic in cities has significantly increased, putting pressure on the overall carbon emission reduction of cities The implementation of low-carbon t...
In this paper, we construct a fully discrete and decoupled Crank–Nicolson Leap-Frog (CNLF) scheme for solving the modified phase field crystal model (MPFC) with long-range interaction. The idea of CNLF is to treat stiff terms implicity with Cra...
As important nodes in the air transport system, it is of great significance for airports to achieve the carbon-peaking goal before 2030 under the target of peaking carbon emissions in China’s civil aviation industry. However, it remains unknown...
In the present study, we compare energy transition scenarios from a new set of integrated assessment models, the suite of MEDEAS models, based on a systems dynamic modeling approach, with scenarios from two already well know structurally and conceptu...
Shanxi Province, an important source of coal resources in China, has consumed a large amount of fossil fuels in the past few decades. The CO2 emissions of Shanxi Province have been increasing annually, reaching 541.8 million tons in 2018, 54.6% highe...
Kinematic analysis of leaping motions can provide meaningful insights into unraveling the efficient and agile propulsive mechanisms in dolphin swimming. However, undisturbed kinematic examination of live dolphins has been very scarce due to the restr...
In this study, two numerical schemes with second-order accuracy in time for a modified Ericksen–Leslie model are constructed. The highlight is based on a novel convex splitting method for dealing with the nonlinear potentials, which is integrat...
To achieve global sustainable development and actively respond to climate change, China, as the world’s largest energy consumer and carbon emitter, needs to save energy and reduce emissions without delay. By constructing LEAP-China production-s...
The signatory countries of the Paris Agreement must submit their updated Intended National Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the UNFCCC secretariat every five years. In Colombia, this activity was historically carried out with a wide set of diverse...
Buildings account for nearly 30% of global energy-related carbon emissions. In rapidly developing economies, the operational phase of buildings represents a major and growing source of emissions. However, emission pathways in hot-summer-cold-winter (...
Congestion pricing strategy has been recognized as an effective countermeasure in the practical field of urban traffic congestion mitigation. In this paper, a bi-level programming model considering carbon dioxide emission is proposed to mitigate traf...
Biochemical reaction systems in a cell exhibit stochastic behaviour, owing to the unpredictable nature of the molecular interactions. The fluctuations at the molecular level may lead to a different behaviour than that predicted by the deterministic m...
As a designated national low-carbon pilot city, Nanjing faces the challenge of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions while experiencing rapid economic growth. This study developed a localized Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System...
This paper aims to investigate the outlook of energy generation by means of transformation within the context of sustainable energy development. An analysis is conducted to assess the stability of energy systems so to implement cutting-edge energy pr...
Energy crises, water shortages, and rising carbon emissions are constantly posing new demands and challenges to global economic development. Considering the problem of high emissions and high water consumption in the process of energy production and...
Decomposition analysis and forecasting of carbon emissions in manufacturing are crucial for setting sustainable carbon-reduction targets. Given the varied carbon-emission efficiencies across sectors, this study applied the Logarithmic Mean Divisia In...
Sierra Leone is suffering from a persistent electricity gap that has crippled its economic growth and prevented it from attaining several health and education development goals. This persistent electricity gap has generated significant interest in ta...
Hospital buildings (HBs) are among the most energy-intensive public buildings, yet their life-cycle carbon characteristics, emission drivers, and long-term mitigation potential remain insufficiently quantified. This study establishes a comprehensive...
In this paper, the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) model is constructed to simulate six scenarios for forecasting national electricity demand in China. The results show that in 2020 the total electricity demand will reach 6407.9~7491.0...
Megacities are the main sources of carbon emissions and are pillars of socioeconomic development due to economic prosperity, industrial development, and population agglomeration. Taking the megacity of Shenzhen, China, as an example, this research ex...
10 June 2022
The study aims to explore the synergic benefits of reducing air pollutants and CO2 and water consumption under the carbon emission peak (CEP) policies at a city level. Air pollutants and CO2 emissions are predicted by the Low Emissions Analysis Platf...
The AnyBody Modeling System™ (AMS) is a musculoskeletal software simulation solution using inverse dynamics analysis. It enables the determination of muscle and joint forces for a given bodily motion. The recording of the individual movement and the...
Transport emissions are still rising in fast-motorising Chinese provinces. In Guangxi, the vehicle fleet grew 32% between 2020 and 2024, while the grid is already half non-fossil. A bottom-up model built on the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP)...
Ethanol is conventionally used as a blend with gasoline due to its similar properties, especially the octane number. However, ethanol has also been explored and used as a diesel substitute. While a low-blend of ethanol with diesel is possible with us...
With global climate challenges intensifying, the cement industry, as a major CO2 emitter, has attracted significant attention regarding its emission reduction potential and strategies. Advanced economies like the European Union use carbon pricing to...
The transition towards a low-carbon energy system remains a critical challenge for regions heavily dependent on fossil fuels, such as Andalusia. This study proposes an energy planning framework based on the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) to m...
The establishment of low-carbon cities has been suggested all over the World, since cities are key drivers of energy usage and the associated carbon emissions. This paper presents a scenario analysis of future energy consumption and carbon emissions...
As important energy suppliers in China, coal-resource-based cities are pivotal to achieving the nation’s 2060 carbon-neutrality goal. This study focused on Jincheng City, utilizing the LOW EMISSIONS ANALYSIS PLATFORM (LEAP) model to predict car...
As China’s urbanization deepens, the spatial structure of residential areas and land use patterns has undergone profound transformations, with the differentiation of housing prices emerging as a key indicator of urban spatial dynamics and socio...
Achieving deep decarbonization while maintaining power system operational feasibility represents a critical challenge in regions with a high penetration of renewable energy. In this study, we developed an integrated LEAP–NEMO modeling framework...
Provincial power systems must decarbonize while sustaining rapid demand growth and improving air quality; yet, few integrated assessments separate the contributions of renewable expansion and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) for China&...
Liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide-2 (LEAP-2) has mutual antagonism with ghrelin, which evokes food intake under a freely fed state. Nevertheless, the impact of LEAP-2 on ghrelin under time-restricted feeding (TRF), which has benefits in the conte...
29 January 2021
China has grown into the world’s largest tourist source market and its huge tourism activities and resulting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are particularly becoming a concern in the context of global climate warming. To depict the trajectory o...
The standard of living has significantly risen along with ongoing economic progress, but CO2 emissions have also been rising. The reduction in CO2 resulting from the daily activities of residents has become a crucial priority for every province. A re...
26 June 2022
Peaking industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is critical for China to achieve its CO2 peaking target by 2030 since industrial sector is a major contributor to CO2 emissions. Heavy industrial regions consume plenty of fossil fuels and emit a larg...
Urban road transport policies must simultaneously address climate mitigation, local air quality, and the infrastructure requirements associated with vehicle electrification. However, these dimensions are rarely evaluated within a unified city-level f...
Globally, the transportation sector stands as the third largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Nepal is no exception, relying entirely on imported petroleum products. The capital city of Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, with its unique bowl-s...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be initiated and driven by immune responses to multiple antigenic epitopes including those in cartilage proteoglycan (PG, aggrecan) and type II collagen. RA is driven by T helper 1 (Th1) or Th17 pro-inflammatory T cell r...
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