@article{32341,
  author = {Jiang Lin and Nina Khanna and Xu Liu and Fei Teng and Xin Wang},
  title = {China’s Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Future Trajectories and Mitigation Options and Potential},
  abstract = {<p>Forecasts indicate that China’s non-carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will increase rapidly from the 2014 baseline of 2 billion metric tons of CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;equivalent (CO<sub>2</sub>e). Previous studies of the potential for mitigating non-CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;GHG emissions in China have focused on timeframes through only 2030, or only on certain sectors or gases. This study uses a novel bottom-up end-use model to estimate mitigation of China’s non-CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;GHGs under a Mitigation Scenario whereby today’s cost-effective and technologically feasible CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;and non-CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;mitigation measures are deployed through 2050. The study determines that future non-CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;GHG emissions are driven largely by industrial and agricultural sources and that China could reduce those emissions by 47% by 2050 while enabling total GHG emissions to peak by 2023. Except for F-gas mitigation, few national or sectoral policies have focused on reducing non-CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;GHGs. Policy, market, and other institutional support are needed to realize the cost-effective mitigation potentials identified in this study.</p>},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  volume = {9},
  month = {01/2019},
  doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-52653-0},
  language = {eng},
}