Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Role of export industries on ozone pollution and its precursors in China

  • Jiamin Ou,
  • Zhijiong Huang,
  • Zbigniew Klimont,
  • Guanglin Jia,
  • Shaohui Zhang,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Jing Meng,
  • Zhifu Mi,
  • Heran Zheng,
  • Yuli Shan,
  • Peter K. K. Louie,
  • Junyu Zheng,
  • Dabo Guan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19035-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The global supply chain and demand for export goods can lead to relocated emissions. Goods produced in China for foreign markets have lead to an increase of domestic non-methane volatile organic compounds emissions by 3.5 million tons in 2013 resulting in potentially an estimated 16,889 premature deaths annually.