City footprints and SDGs provide untapped potential for assessing city sustainability

T Wiedmann, C Allen - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Cities are recognised as central to determining the sustainability of human development.
However, assessment concepts that are able to ascertain whether or not a city is sustainable …

China's pathway to a low carbon economy

W Yang, R Zhao, X Chuai, L Xiao, L Cao… - Carbon balance and …, 2019 - Springer
Climate change has emerged as one of the most important environmental issues worldwide.
As the world's biggest developing country, China is participating in combating climate …

Linking SDG 7 to assess the renewable energy footprint of nations by 2030

J He, Y Yang, Z Liao, A Xu, K Fang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a guideline
for humanity to respond to an array of pressing challenges. Due to our increasing need for …

Urbanization impact on the supply-demand budget of ecosystem services: Decoupling analysis

J Peng, X Wang, Y Liu, Y Zhao, Z Xu, M Zhao, S Qiu… - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Correlation of ecosystem services (ES) considering both the supply and demand sides
remains unclear, and research on urbanization impact on the ES supply-demand budget is …

The static and dynamic carbon emission efficiency of transport industry in China

C Meng, X Du, M Zhu, Y Ren, K Fang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Transport industry is one of the major contributors to energy-related carbon emissions in
China, thus becoming a topical area of concern where efforts to improve carbon emission …

Synergistic CO2 reduction effects in Chinese urban agglomerations: Perspectives from social network analysis

W Shen, H Liang, L Dong, J Ren, G Wang - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
China has released its ambitious target for carbon neutrality by 2060. With decades of top-
down energy conservation and pollutant mitigation policies, the techno-mitigation space has …

Allocation of carbon emission quotas in China's provincial power sector based on entropy method and ZSG-DEA

X Cui, T Zhao, J Wang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The power sector accounted for almost 40% of China's carbon emissions in 2017 and is the
first industry that is included in the national carbon emission trading system, so the current …

An urban planning sustainability framework: Systems approach to blue green urban design

P Puchol-Salort, J O'Keeffe, M van Reeuwijk… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The climate emergency and population growth are challenging water security and
sustainable urban design in cities worldwide. Sustainable urban development is crucial to …

Mapping the environmental footprints of nations partnering the Belt and Road Initiative

K Fang, S Wang, J He, J Song, C Fang, X Jia - … Conservation and Recycling, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by China has made a
notable contribution to the rapid growth of cross-border trade. This however has been …

How can China achieve its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions by 2030? A multi-criteria allocation of China's carbon emission allowance

K Fang, Q Zhang, Y Long, Y Yoshida, L Sun, H Zhang… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Accelerating global warming has suggested the importance of controlling greenhouse gas
emissions associated with human activities. In striving to fulfill the Paris Agreement, China …