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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Main Authors: Jianxiao Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Zhifang Yang, Mu Wang, Daniel M. Kammen, Zhu Liu, Ziming Ma, Qing Xia, Chongqing Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19854-y