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China's greenhouse gas emissions
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For example, the authors predicts that China will become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases perhaps even during the 2010s, but almost inevitably before the year 2025, due to the continuing heavy reliance on coal.Abstract:
China is already the world's second largest producer of greenhouse gases, and its emissions will increase substantially during the coming generation. Rapid economic expansion will need much higher inputs of primary energy, and the continuing heavy reliance on coal will more than double the recent CO 2 emissions. Providing enough food for a population which is still growing at high absolute rates will require further intensification of farming resulting in higher releases of CH 4 and N 2 O. Consequently, China will become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases perhaps even during the 2010s, but almost inevitably before the year 2025.read more
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Management opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese agriculture
Dali Rani Nayak,Eli Saetnan,Kun Cheng,Wen Wang,Frank Koslowski,Yan-Fen Cheng,Weiyun Zhu,Jiakun Wang,Jianxin Liu,Dominic Moran,Xiaoyuan Yan,Laura M. Cardenas,J.C. Newbold,Genxing Pan,Y. Lu,Pete Smith +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a bottom-up assessment to quantify technical potential of mitigation measures for Chinese agriculture using meta-analysis of data from 240 publications for cropland, 67 publications for grassland and 139 publications for livestock, and provides the reference scenario for the cost analysis of identified mitigation measures.
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China's Energy and Resource Uses: Continuity and Change
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Regional structure of global warming across China during the twentieth century
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Relative contributions of greenhouse gas emissions to global warming
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