A global dataset of CO2 emissions and ancillary data related to emissions for 343 cities

Continued global warming after CO2 emissions stoppage

Recent studies have suggested that global mean surface temperature would remain approximately constant on multicentury timescales after CO2 emissions1–9 are stopped. Here we use Earth system model simulations of such a stoppage to demonstrate that in some models, surface temperature may actually increase on multi-century timescales after an initial century-long decrease. This occurs in spite of...

Net CO2 Emissions from Global Photovoltaic Development

Examining Determinants of CO2 Emissions in 73 Cities in China

Issues concerning which factors that influence carbon dioxide emission, and which administrative measures should be imposed to reduce carbon emission in Chinese cities, have been on the agenda in cities’ policy-making. Yet little literature has studied this topic from the city level. This paper first measures CO2 emission of 73 Chinese cities. We find heterogeneity embedded in the cross-city di...

Trust and CO2 Emissions: Cooperation on a Global Scale

In this paper we show that the within-country cooperative culture sustained by trust affects international cooperative behaviour. We focus on the role of social norms shared by trustworthy individuals and theoretically show how such norms can create incentives for trustworthy individuals to cooperate with foreigners even when they are unsure of the trustworthiness of their foreign partners via ...

Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions.

CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning and industrial processes have been accelerating at a global scale, with their growth rate increasing from 1.1% y(-1) for 1990-1999 to >3% y(-1) for 2000-2004. The emissions growth rate since 2000 was greater than for the most fossil-fuel intensive of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emissions scenarios developed in the late 1990s. Global emiss...