Cities: The core of climate change mitigation

Z Mi, D Guan, Z Liu, J Liu, V Viguié, N Fromer… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cities, the core of the global climate change mitigation and strategic low-carbon
development, are shelters to more than half of the world population and responsible for …

What kinds of building energy-saving retrofit projects should be preferred? Efficiency evaluation with three-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA)

Z Wang, Q Liu, B Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Building energy-saving retrofit projects (BERPs) have been widely implemented due to
pressure to reduce emissions to meet carbon neutrality targets. However, it is still not clear …

Predictions of carbon emission intensity based on factor analysis and an improved extreme learning machine from the perspective of carbon emission efficiency

W Sun, C Huang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Given the severe global warming situation, it is very important to explore the factors
influencing carbon emission intensity and accurately analyze the trends in the development …

Spatial correlation network structure of China's building carbon emissions and its driving factors: a social network analysis method

T Huo, R Cao, N Xia, X Hu, W Cai, B Liu - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clarifying the spatial association network of provincial building carbon emissions and its
influential drivers is profoundly significant for transregional collaborative emission reduction …

China's commercial building carbon emissions toward 2060: An integrated dynamic emission assessment model

T Huo, L Xu, B Liu, W Cai, W Feng - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon-mitigation in the commercial building sector is critical to carbon peaking and carbon
neutral commitment. However, there has been little scientific focus on long-term evolutionary …

Assessing the green energy development in China and its carbon reduction effect: Using a quantile approach

B Xu, B Lin - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing green energy has become a critical way to deal with energy shortage and global
warming. The objective is to investigate the driving factors of green energy development in …

Can environmental regulation solve pollution problems? Theoretical model and empirical research based on the skill premium

A Wang, S Hu, B Lin - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
As the most populous country with huge fossil energy consumption, China's employment
and environmental problems have attracted worldwide attention. This paper contributes to …

China's carbon budget inventory from 1997 to 2017 and its challenges to achieving carbon neutral strategies

S Zhang, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, G Luo, L Wu… - Journal of cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The global climate change situation partly depends on the climate change policies of
countries around the world, including China. Therefore, it is necessary to reasonably reduce …

The impact of energy consumption and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions

OA Osobajo, A Otitoju, MA Otitoju, A Oke - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study explored the effect of energy consumption and economic growth on CO2
emissions. The relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 …

Spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanism of carbon emissions in China's urban residential building sector

H Chen, Q Du, T Huo, P Liu, W Cai, B Liu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Revealing the regional differences and drivers of provincial urban residential building sector
carbon emissions (URBCE) is critical for regional collaborative emission reduction in …