Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China
China has enacted Electric Heating Policy to substitute electricity for in-home combustion for rural residential heating. Here the authors show that this shift would greatly increase national carbon emissions by 101.69–162.89 megatons in 2015 while impeding China’s carbon mitigation process in the f...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2020-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19854-y |