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International efforts to mitigate climate change have historically focused on reducing energy-related CO2 emissions from developed economies, including the EU and the U.S., or countries with the largest populations, such as China and India, and a series of emission reduction policies has been implemented. But attention to the current situation of climate control in underdeveloped areas is lac...
Over 1 million people die every year from diseases caused by exposure to outdoor PM2·5 air pollution. As air pollutants and carbon dioxide are of the same origin, all mainly coming from the combustion and utilization of fossil fuels, in addition to clean-air policies that target pollution emissions, climate policies aimed at reducing fossil-fuel CO2 emissions might also reduce the discharge of ...
The production of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a pivotal negative emission technology for realizing the carbon neutrality goal and mitigating climate change. Its basic principle is to fix CO2 through plant growth by cultivating bioenergy crops. After the use of bioenergy, CO2 emitted can be captured and stored, thus reducing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. The reduc...
The SWQSIM achievement in which the Tsinghua DESS supercomputing team participated winning the 2021 Gordon Bell Prize has recently been rated as “Top Ten News Events on Scientific and Technological Advances in China and the World in 2021”. The news evaluation event has been held for 28 times by far as an important window for the public to have a comprehensive understanding of the latest scien...
Reducing the use of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) is an important link in the making of carbon mitigation policies in the transport sector. Estimating the carbon mitigation and health cobenefits from the banning of ICEVs across different provinces is of great significance to the formulation of the “step-by-step” strategies and optimization of policy efficiency. Therefore, Cai We...
It is essential to assess the development of China's regions for achieving sustainable development goals. However, the existing research on sustainable development assessment is still restricted to developed countries and lacks the city-level quantitative indicators and evaluation system suitable for China. The United Nations University - International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Envir...
Li Wei’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University has recently published a research paper online, revealing the biophysical effects of growing bioenergy crops at large scale in the world, and exploring the impact of different bioenergy crop types, distributions and planting areas on biophysical effects.Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS...
In October 2021, the research group led by Professor Yang Kun from the Department of Earth System Science of Tsinghua University published a paper entitled “Presentation of Stony Surface-Atmosphere Interactions in WRF Reduction Cold and Wet Bias for the Southern Tibetan Plateau” in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. In the field investigation, the research group found that the...
