Publications by authors named "Jia-Ning Kang"
Article Synopsis
- * This study suggests strategies that balance national climate goals with local economic benefits, aiming for fairness across regions while minimizing financial losses.
- * Focusing on China, the research shows that these tailored strategies might prevent up to 1.54% in GDP losses and benefit over 90% of regions compared to either existing targets or a uniform approach to reaching peak carbon emissions by 2030.
Limiting climate change to 1.5°C and achieving net-zero emissions would entail substantial carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere by the mid-century, but how much CDR is needed at country level over time is unclear. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of when and how much CDR is required at country level in order to achieve 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal environmental inequality: Evidence from embodied land and virtual water trade.
Sci Total Environ
August 2021
The trade-off between economic growth and environmental conservation is the focus of national environmental management. Previous studies have proved that global trade can bring both economic benefits and environmental costs to all countries. However, for different countries, it is not clear whether the environmental costs match their economic benefits in global trade.
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