Prof. Wei Yiming, Prof. Guan Dabo from University of East Anglia, UK and Dr. Dominik Wiedenhofer from Klagenfurt University in Austria, Dr. Liu Zhu from California Institute of Technology, etc., have completed the “Unequal household Carbon footprints in China”. The research results were published recently in the Article section of Nature-Climate Change.
The results of the study show that household carbon footprint in China increased by 19% between 2007 and 2012, with 75% of the increase being due to higher levels of consumption by the middle and upper income groups. The carbon footprint of China's highest income group is now at the average Europen level, while two-thirds of Chinese population are still at a relatively low carbon footprint. Household carbon footprint and income inequality in China is a huge challenge for China's greenhouse gas reduction.
Prof. Wei Yiming from Beijing Institute of Technology and Prof. Guan Dabo from University of East Anglia, UK, are the corresponding authors of this paper. The research is supported by the national key R & D program project "Comprehensive Assessment Mode of Economic Impacts of Climate Change" and the National Natural Science Foundation project "Energy Economics and Climate Policy".
Wiedenhofer, D., Guan, D., Liu, Z., Meng, J., Zhang, N.and Wei, Y.-M. (2016). Unequal household carbon footprints in China. Nature Climate Change.
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http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3165.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3165
