China's forest carbon sinks and mitigation potential from carbon sequestration trading perspective

Ke, Shuifa; Zhang, Zhao; Wang, Yumeng

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110054

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“…It is important to note that the extent of GHGs reduction varies among Chinese provinces due to variations in the number of lakes and their respective trophic states (Figure S5). In China's existing carbon trading market, the primary trading entities are predominantly from electricity industry and industrial sectors 50 , with limited emphasis on natural sources, except for afforestation 51,52 . However, the "Management measures for voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trade" recently reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China 53 , stipulates that GHGs emissions reduction projects should encompass areas such as carbon sequestration in forestry, energy conservation, efficiency improvements, and other fields that promote GHGs reductions, sequestrations, or help prevent and reduce GHGs emission.…”

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Improved estimation of lake greenhouse gas emissions in China based on nutrients and potential benefits from eutrophication controls

Tong,

Wang,

Zhao

et al. 2024

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Lakes are important natural sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the atmosphere, and their nutrient status is a significant driver affecting GHGs production and emission. Nevertheless, when estimating GHGs emissions at regional or national scales, the variations in emission rates caused by differences in nutrient status are often overlooked or not adequately considered. The potential social benefits of eutrophication control in mitigating climate change damage were rarely quantified, leading to largely underestimated benefits generated from water quality improvement. In this study, we compiled a comprehensive dataset on the emission rates of three typical GHGs (i.e., CO2, CH4, and N2O) from China’s lakes (n=356), and their nutrient concentrations, lake morphologies, and climate information. The fitted models between lake GHG emission rates and their drivers were established to upscale national GHGs emissions from lakes and approximate the changes in GHGs emissions under different nitrogen and phosphorus levels. We found that the current GHGs emissions from China’s lakes were 48.44 (31.60‒73.79) Tg CO2-eq·y-1, with CO2 emissions contributing around 52%. Even with a mere 10% reduction in nitrogen concentration in lakes nationwide over 2020‒2050, the estimated decrease in the GHGs emissions over the 30-year period would be 46.9 Tg CO2-eq, avoided climate change damages values could reach $1.5‒4.9 billion (2020 $US). Lake eutrophication controls can present an excellent chance to simultaneously achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of “clean water and sanitation” and “climate action”, accelerating the global progress toward sustainability.

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Improved estimation of lake greenhouse gas emissions in China based on nutrients and potential benefits from eutrophication controls

Tong,

Wang,

Zhao

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“…Affected by the accumulation of primary data, changes in practical needs, and technological innovation, there is controversy in the academic community over the inherent logic and development direction of different methods. In this regard, scholars have examined the spatial-temporal relationships of FCS from various perspectives, including global (Tong et al 2023;Besnard et al 2021;Anderson-Teixeira et al 2021), tropical forests (Mesa-Sierra et al 2022;Koh et al 2021;Needham et al 2022), southeast Asia (Sarira et al 2022), countries (Wu et al 2023;Khanal et al 2023;Ke et al 2023;Magerl et al 2022;Oro et al 2023;Aggarwal 2022), provincial (Li et al 2023), municipal (Diao et al 2022) and sample plot (Piffer et al 2022;Xue 2022; ). These studies have enriched the research content of FCS from different perspectives and spatial scales.…”

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An exploration of spatial-temporal characteristics and spatial spillover effects of forest carbon sinks in the Yellow River Basin, China

2023

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Developing forest carbon sinks (FCS) is significant for China to achieve carbon neutrality. The Yellow River Basin is a principal area for China’s energy consumption, and the forest resource distribution of this vast basin is spatially dependent, determining that the development of FCS cannot be separated geographically. Based on the spatial panel data of 69 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River basin from 1988 to 2018, we used ESDA to reveal the spatial–temporal characteristics of FCS, and we established a spatial econometric model to investigate the transregional spillover effects of FCS. The results showed that: ① the overall FCS showed a gradually increasing trend, with a general distribution characteristic of “upstream > midstream > downstream” from 1988 to 2018. ②FCS presented an agglomeration distribution pattern with significant spatial spillover effects, and the degree of uneven spatial agglomeration varied across the years. ③Urbanization rate, forestry fixed assets investment, labor input, and afforestation management level directly promote FCS growth, whereas forest harvesting, precipitation, and temperature decrease FCS. ④Urbanization rate, forest harvesting, forestry fixed assets investment, labor input, and afforestation management level have positive spillover effects on FCS, while precipitation and temperature have adverse spillover effects on FCS. Hence, pertinent policy suggestions are put out to serve as a guide for increasing FCS.

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“…For China, Ye et al (2023) affirmed the role of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in achieving China's carbon neutrality by 2060. In addition, some studies focused on other factors that may also affect the energy power system, such as coalfired power (Liu et al 2019, Wei et al 2022, CCUScarbon capture, utilization, and storage (Farabi-Asl et al 2020, Zhang et al 2020b, Fan et al 2021, Scharf et al 2021, and carbon sinks (Ke et al 2023).…”

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Air quality and heath co-benefits of low carbon transition policies in electricity system: the case of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region

Guo,

Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Low carbon transition strategies of power plants are crucial to meet China’s “Dual Carbon” targets. While the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, the “capital economic circles” of China, is suffering from serious air pollution, air quality co-benefits of low carbon transition policies in electricity system in BTH area remain unclear. Here, we estimate the impacts of low carbon transition policies, including one BAU, six single and five combined scenarios, in electricity system in BTH area on installed power capacity, CO2 emissions, air quality and human health through 2060 based on OSeMOSYS and ERSM models. Results show that the total installed capacity under single and combined scenarios (except RE and Tech single scenarios) fluctuates around the BAU level of 310.5 GW in 2060. While all single and combined scenarios would generally achieve “carbon peak” in BTH electricity system before 2030, only S4 (combining technological progress, renewable energy development and CCUS) and S5 (in additional to S4, including gas-fired power generation instead of coal-fired power generation) scenarios have the potential to realize carbon neutrality by 2060. The magnitude of reductions in air pollutant emissions and improvement in air quality in BTH area from the BAU level in 2060 under combined scenarios, especially S4 and S5, generally exceed that of six single scenarios. Importantly, S5 in 2060 contributes to about 8,528 avoided premature mortalities in BTH area, which are more effective than any other scenarios. The results suggest that S5 is a promising low carbon transition policies to achieve environmental improvement and produce health benefits.

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China's forest carbon sinks and mitigation potential from carbon sequestration trading perspective

Cited by 55 publications

References 22 publications

Improved estimation of lake greenhouse gas emissions in China based on nutrients and potential benefits from eutrophication controls

Improved estimation of lake greenhouse gas emissions in China based on nutrients and potential benefits from eutrophication controls

An exploration of spatial-temporal characteristics and spatial spillover effects of forest carbon sinks in the Yellow River Basin, China

Air quality and heath co-benefits of low carbon transition policies in electricity system: the case of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region

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