Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Mitigation of China’s carbon neutrality to global warming

  • Longhui Li,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Tianjun Zhou,
  • Kaicun Wang,
  • Can Wang,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Linwang Yuan,
  • Kangxin An,
  • Chenghu Zhou,
  • Guonian Lü

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33047-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here the authors show that China’s carbon neutrality may mitigate global warming by 0.48 °C and 0.40 °C, which account for 14% and 9% of the global warming over the long term under the shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) 3-7.0 and 5-8.5 scenarios, respectively.