Publications by authors named "Lan-Cui Liu"

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.
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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.

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China proposed a target to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. Wind power is crucial for mitigating climate change and achieving carbon neutrality. However, its development depends on the potential constraints of rare-earth elements.

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Intensifying climate change significantly impacts residential electricity consumption, especially in developing countries, such as China, that are experiencing rapid income growth. By combining meteorological and monthly household consumption survey data, this study explores the response function of residential electricity consumption to temperature in China from a micro perspective. Future residential electricity demands and related CO emissions are then forecast under different climate scenarios.

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Large-scale population migration accompanied by rapid urbanization is expected to cause the spatial relocation of air pollution because of heterogeneous energy use and consumption preferences of rural versus urban areas in China. In this study, we adopted an integrated approach by combining a population migration model and environmentally extended input-output analysis to quantify impacts of rural-to-urban (RU) and urban-to-urban (UU) migrations on emissions of NO, SO, and primary PM in China. Results indicate that population migration increases NO (1.

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