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On the North China Plain, the winter wheat season is poorly synchronized with precipitation, making the traditional winter wheat–summer maize system heavily dependent on supplemental irrigation and associated carbon inputs. Based on a split-plo...

A path of green, low-carbon development in agriculture is to be explored in the face of global warming, which promotes sustainable development. Taking the policy of the main grain-producing area (MGPA) as a special background, this study shows the im...

Including green manure into a rice-based double-cropping system has effects on both crop production and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet, few studies have considered the trade-off between crop productivity, profitability, and carbon footprint (CF)...

Straw input is a helpful approach that potentially improves soil fertility and crop yield to ensure food security and protect the ecological environment. Nevertheless, unreasonable straw input results in massive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, leadin...

China’s carbon emissions have a stable industrial concentration. In recent years, the carbon emissions of the six major high-carbon industries have accounted for approximately 80% of the national total and are thus priority areas for emission r...

Urban living space (ULS) is known to be a significant contributor to carbon emissions. However, there is a lack of studies that have considered the impact of spatial organization indexes (SOIs) of various scales on urban living space carbon emissions...

Under the ‘dual carbon’ goals, low-carbon planning in rural areas has become a key priority. To elucidate the mechanisms through which the spatial form of rural communities influences carbon emissions, this paper examines three types of r...

Urban areas contribute significant carbon emissions. Evaluating and analysing the spatial distribution of carbon emissions are the foundations of low-carbon city development and carbon emissions reduction. In this study, carbon emission inventory was...

Low-carbon cities aim to minimize greenhouse gas emissions in the context of climate change in the process of urbanization. Maintaining these cities at an appropriate physical scale has been proven to contribute to carbon reduction. Therefore, this s...

Urbanization is growing at a rapid pace, and this is being reflected in the rising energy consumption from fossil fuels, which is contributing significantly to greenhouse gas impacts and carbon emissions (CE). Aiming at the problems of the time delay...

The concept of green and low-carbon development is integrated into territorial spatial planning and district control research. It is one of the systematic policy tools for emission reduction and carbon sequestration, greatly contributing to achieving...

With the increase in population and the growing demands of industrialization, carbon emissions across the globe are increasing exponentially. Furthermore, the demand for clean energy from renewable sources (solar, wind, etc.) is growing at an unparal...

Carbon emission inequality has become a critical factor constraining the coordinated development of socio-economic systems and the natural environment. This inequality exacerbates the disparity in carbon emissions across regions, hindering efforts to...

The area with the highest concentration of carbon emission activities is construction land. However, few studies have been conducted that investigated the different effects of various types of construction land on carbon emissions and the extent of t...

Cities in cold regions face significant challenges, including high carbon emissions, intense energy use, and outdated energy structures, making them critical areas for achieving carbon neutrality and sustainable development. While studies have explor...

Most of the residents’ daily travel is concentrated within their 15-min walking distance. In China, derived from the 15-min city concept, the 15-min walkable area is often referred to as the 15-min pedestrian-scale neighborhood, and it has beco...

This paper expanded the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model through the introduction of urbanization, residents’ consumption, and other factors, and decomposed carbon emission changes in China into carbon emission factor effect, energy intens...

Carbon emissions in rural areas have increased significantly, resulting in huge emission reduction potential, but research on carbon accounting at the courtyard scale is insufficient. To fill the gap in micro-level carbon management and support the g...

Carbon emissions and consequent climate change directly affect the sustainable development of ecological environment systems and human society, which is a pertinent issue of concern for all countries globally. The construction of a carbon emission in...

Urbanization is an important factor in the growth of carbon emissions, as the city is a dense area of carbon emissions. This paper estimates the carbon emissions at the provincial, municipal, and county spatial scales in the Yangtze River Delta regio...

Low-carbon governance at the county level has been an important issue for sustainable development due to the large contributions to carbon emission. However, the experiences of carbon emission governance at the county level are lacking. This paper di...

Coastal cities, as centers of economic and industrial activity, accommodate over 40% of the national population and generate more than 70% of the GDP. They are critical centers of carbon emissions, making the accurate and long-term analysis of spatio...

Standardization in energy-saving and emission-reduction measures has become increasingly important. The impact of standardization on carbon-emission efficiency in China was explored by using panel data from 2002 to 2017. The results showed that stand...

As the energy crisis and environmental problems are exacerbated, rural carbon emissions have gradually attracted increasing attention. Meanwhile, rural areas have the important function of ecological carbon sequestration, so the research field of car...

Abnormal climatic changes and related disasters are increasing in prevalence, with many negative impacts on ecosystems and agricultural production. The area of land in China is vast, including diverse terrain and climate types, and a substantial area...

Global warming has become one of the major threats to the security of human survival, security, and sustainable development. Agricultural production has been widely suspected as one of the main sources of anthropogenic carbon emissions. Analyzing the...

Monitoring carbon emissions is crucial for assessing and addressing economic development and climate change, particularly in regions like the nine provinces along the Yellow River in China, which experiences significant urbanization and development....

Carbon satellites, as the most direct means of observing carbon dioxide globally, offer credible and scientifically robust methods for estimating carbon emissions. To enhance the accuracy and timeliness of urban-scale carbon emission estimates, this...

An explicit spatial carbon emission map is of great significance for reducing carbon emissions through urban planning. Previous studies have proved that, at the city scale, the vector carbon emission maps can provide more accurate spatial carbon emis...

Wildfires are well known as annual disasters in Indonesia. More than 3 million ha was burned in the last 5 years. During an extreme event such as in 2019, carbon emissions can cause smog disasters in neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Singapo...

China’s accelerated urbanization has instigated construction land expansion and ecological land attrition, aggravating the carbon emission disequilibrium. Notably, the “land carbon emission elasticity coefficient” in urban agglomera...

This paper used the Gini coefficient, standard deviation ellipse, and spatial autocorrelation model to analyze the overall changes, regional differences, spatio-temporal evolution pattern, and clustering characteristics of carbon emissions in 87 coun...

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...

China is vigorously promoting agricultural energy conservation and carbon reduction and accelerating the transformation of traditional agriculture towards green development, which is a key measure adopted by the Chinese government to advance agricult...

This study evaluated the carbon emissions as one of the environmental impacts of fishing activities in China during the period of 2010–2022. The decoupling effect of fishery carbon emissions and fishery economic growth was analyzed using a deco...

Land use change is one of the key elements leading to carbon emission changes, and is of great significance to the process of achieving the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. In this study, we calculated the land-use carbon emissions (LCE...

Australia’s urban built environment contributes significantly to the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions; therefore, encouraging urban development to pursue low-carbon outcomes will aid in reducing carbon in the overall economy. Cities and urban areas...

Satellite XCO₂ retrievals have been widely used in estimating fossil fuel carbon (FFC) emissions at point and urban scales. However, at the regional scale, it remains a significant challenge. Furthermore, current global and regional atmospheric inver...

In September 2020, China proposed the achievement of the emission reduction targets of “carbon peak” and “carbon neutral” by 2030 and 2060, respectively. As an important area of energy consumption in addition to industry and t...

The close association between policy deployment in ecotourism demonstration areas and low-carbon tourism makes it imperative to explore whether such policies can effectively curb carbon emissions in the tourism sector. This study utilizes an evolutio...

Rapid urbanization and associated greenhouse gas emissions pose severe challenges to global climate goals. Accurately estimating urban carbon emissions at fine administrative scales is a critical prerequisite for spatially differentiated mitigation p...

Urban areas and green spaces are significant atmospheric carbon sources and sinks. Spatial planning is crucial for improving the urban carbon budget. However, there are many uncertainties due to the diversity and complexity of the effects of urban an...

This study develops a bottom-up carbon emission accounting framework at the urban community scale and applies it to 642 communities in Guangzhou, China, using the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification. Carbon emissions from buildings, transportatio...

Commuting carbon emissions are an essential component of urban carbon emissions, and determining how to reduce them is an area of great debate among researchers. The current research lacks a tool and instrument that can extensively account for reside...

Accurate electricity carbon emission factors are crucial for assessing overall social carbon emissions and achieving China’s “dual carbon” goals. This paper proposes a dynamic correction model that integrates lifecycle extension, po...

With the acceleration of China’s urbanization process, the importance of energy conservation and emission reduction in the building sector has become increasingly prominent. The effective control of carbon emissions in coastal provinces has a d...

We performed a screening evaluation of the human health risk posed by nanocarbon materials at the lifecycle stages of manufacturing and the use of the solid carbon generated in hydrogen manufacture by methane decomposition. We first estimated the atm...

The spatial autocorrelation analysis method was applied to panel data from the provinces of China (including autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) for the period 2003 to 2016 in order to construct a spatial Durb...

The accurate measurement of CO₂ emissions is helpful for realizing the goals of “carbon neutralization” and “carbon peak”. However, most current research on CO₂ emission measurements utilizes the traditional energy balance coe...

The power industry is one of the main industries of energy consumption and carbon emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, in order to accelerate the development of green and low-carbon power. This paper takes the power industry in the Yangtze R...