China's CO2 emission trends 2000-2020

Abstract:

China is now the largest CO₂ emitter in the world and plays the key role in global climate change mitigation. After the rapid growth of emissions in the past decade, China’s emissions have declined since 2014 but rebounded in 2017, according to our latest emission accounting results. However, due to the lag of energy statistics data for more than two years, most CO₂ emission databases only provide China's CO₂ emission estimates until 2017. Here we proposed an approach to obtain fast estimates of China’s CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement process until 2019. By combining the daily emission data in 2020 from the Carbon Monitor project (https://carbonmonitor.org), a near-real time dataset of daily CO₂ emission estimates by sectors, we are going to present the China's recent CO₂ emission trends during 2000-2020.