Sustained methane emissions from China after 2012 despite declining coal production and rice-cultivated area

Sustained methane emissions from China after 2012 despite declining coal production and rice-cultivated area

China’s anthropogenic methane emissions are the largest of any country in the world. A recent study using atmospheric observations suggested that recent policies aimed at reducing emissions of methane due to coal production in China after 2010 had been largely ineffective. Here, based on a longer ob...

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Main Authors: Jianxiong Sheng, Rachel Tunnicliffe, Anita L Ganesan, Joannes D Maasakkers, Lu Shen, Ronald G Prinn, Shaojie Song, Yuzhong Zhang, Tia Scarpelli, A Anthony Bloom, Matthew Rigby, Alistair J Manning, Robert J Parker, Hartmut Boesch, Xin Lan, Bo Zhang, Minghao Zhuang, Xi Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
emissions
coal mining
methane
aquaculture
rice cultivation
china
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac24d1

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac24d1

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