A critical review on deployment planning and risk analysis of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) toward carbon neutrality

S Chen, J Liu, Q Zhang, F Teng, BC McLellan - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the proposal to achieve carbon neutrality by the mid-21st century, carbon capture,
utilization, and storage (CCUS) as a critical negative carbon technology is receiving …

Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China

Z Liu, Z Deng, G He, H Wang, X Zhang, J Lin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
China is currently the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2). China therefore has a
key role in global climate change mitigation. Policies and commitments are required to …

The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

S Fankhauser, SM Smith, M Allen, K Axelsson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
The concept of net-zero carbon emissions has emerged from physical climate science.
However, it is operationalized through social, political and economic systems. We identify …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the energy transition in China towards carbon neutrality with a probabilistic framework

S Zhang, W Chen - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
A profound transformation of China's energy system is required to achieve carbon neutrality.
Here, we couple Monte Carlo analysis with a bottom-up energy-environment-economy …

Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

Y Yang, Y Shi, W Sun, J Chang, J Zhu, L Chen… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an
important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Accelerating the energy transition towards photovoltaic and wind in China

Y Wang, R Wang, K Tanaka, P Ciais, J Penuelas… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
China's goal to achieve carbon (C) neutrality by 2060 requires scaling up photovoltaic (PV)
and wind power from 1 to 10–15 PWh year− 1 (refs.,,,–). Following the historical rates of …

Breaking the hard-to-abate bottleneck in China's path to carbon neutrality with clean hydrogen

X Yang, CP Nielsen, S Song, MB McElroy - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Countries such as China are facing a bottleneck in their paths to carbon neutrality: abating
emissions in heavy industries and heavy-duty transport. There are few in-depth studies of …

Biophysical and economic constraints on China's natural climate solutions

N Lu, H Tian, B Fu, H Yu, S Piao, S Chen, Y Li… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions (NCS) are strategies for climate mitigation in the land sector that
increase carbon storage or avoid GHG emissions. Here we estimate China's historic NCS …

China can reach carbon neutrality before 2050 by improving economic development quality

G Xu, H Dong, Z Xu, N Bhattarai - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
As the largest carbon emission emitter, China has made a commitment to the international
community to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. While most literature suggests such a …

Co-firing plants with retrofitted carbon capture and storage for power-sector emissions mitigation

JL Fan, J Fu, X Zhang, K Li, W Zhou, K Hubacek… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Given that the global fleet of coal-fired power plants is mostly new, coal–biomass co-firing
power plants with retrofitted carbon capture and storage (CBECCS) are regarded as a …