Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Assessing the Policy gaps for achieving China’s climate targets in the Paris Agreement

  • Kelly Sims Gallagher,
  • Fang Zhang,
  • Robbie Orvis,
  • Jeffrey Rissman,
  • Qiang Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09159-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The extent to which China’s existing and forthcoming policies would lead to emission reductions domestically has not been well understood. Here the authors combined expert elicitation and a system dynamic model and showed that China is on track to peak its emissions well in advance of 2030.