• Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation 

      Zheng, Heran; Long, Yin; Wood, Richard; Moran, Daniel; Zhang, Zhengkai; Meng, Jing; Feng, Kuishuang; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Populations in developed countries are ageing. However, the impact of senior citizens’ consumption on global carbon mitigation is poorly understood. Here we find that senior citizens have played a leading role in driving ...
    • Chinese provincial multi-regional input-output database for 2012, 2015, and 2017 

      Zheng, Heran; Bai, Yangchun; Wei, Wendong; Meng, Jing; Zhang, Zengkai; Song, Malin; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Global production fragmentation generates indirect socioeconomic and environmental impacts throughout its expanded supply chains. The multi-regional input-output model (MRIO) is a tool commonly used to trace the supply ...
    • The Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions in the Jing-Jin-Ji Urban Agglomeration Over China's Economic Transition 

      Bai, Yangchun; Zheng, Heran; Meng, Jing; Shan, Yuli; Li, Yuan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    • Drivers of fluctuating embodied carbon emissions in international services trade 

      Huo, Jingwen; Meng, Jing; Zhang, Zengkai; Gao, Yuning; Zheng, Heran; Coffman, D'Maris; Xue, Jinjun; Li, Yuan; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Service industries are generally considered “green” because of their marginal direct emissions; however, they account for 65% of the world gross domestic product and over 20% of total global trade in 2019. Here, we quantify ...
    • The driving forces behind the change in energy consumption in developing countries 

      Li, Shuping; Meng, Jing; Zheng, Heran; Zhang, Ning; Huo, Jingwen; Li, Yuan; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Economic growth is principally powered by energy fuels. While the potential energy transition pathways in developed countries are clear, they have not been well explored for developing countries. Here, we study the average ...
    • Leveraging opportunity of low carbon transition by super-emitter cities in China 

      Zheng, Heran; Zhang, Zengkai; Dietzenbacher, Erik; Zhou, Ya; Többen, Johannes Reinhard; Feng, Kuishuang; Moran, Daniel; Jiang, Meng; Shan, Yuli; Wang, Daoping; Liu, Xiaoyu; Li, Li; Zhao, Dandan; Meng, Jing; Ou, Jiamin; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Chinese cities are core in the national carbon mitigation and largely affect global decarbonisation initiatives, yet disparities between cities challenge country-wide progress. Low-carbon transition should preferably lead ...
    • Role of export industries on ozone pollution and its precursors in China 

      Ou, Jiamin; Huang, Zhijiong; Klimont, Zbigniew; Jia, Guanglin; Zhang, Shaohui; Li, Cheng; Meng, Jing; Mi, Zhifu; Zheng, Heran; Shan, Yuli; Louie, Peter K. K.; Zheng, Junyu; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This study seeks to estimate how global supply chain relocates emissions of tropospheric ozone precursors and its impacts in shaping ozone formation. Here we show that goods produced in China for foreign markets lead to ...
    • Supply chain effects of China's fast growing marine economy on greenhouse gas emissions 

      Li, Man; Feng, Kuishuang; Zheng, Heran; Pan, Chen; Meng, Jing; Li, Jiashuo; Guan, Dabo; Li, Yuan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The marine economic activities has become a vital economic driving force for development of China's economy. However, the trajectory of greenhouse gas (i.e. GHG) emissions associated the fast growing marine economy and its ...
    • The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain 

      Meng, Jing; Hu, Xiangping; Chen, Peipei; Coffman, D'Maris; Han, Mengyao (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Reducing fossil fuel consumption is a top priority option for climate change mitigation, which requires collaborations of partners along the supply chain, such as energy suppliers, energy consumers and final consumers of ...
    • Virtual carbon and water flows embodied in global fashion trade - a case study of denim products 

      Zhao, Minyi; Zhou, Ya; Meng, Jing; Zheng, Heran; Cai, Yanpeng; Shan, Yuli; Guan, Dabo; Yang, Zhifeng (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The environmental impacts of the fashion industry have been aroused wide concerns. The globalization and fragmentation of the textile and fashion system have led to the uneven distribution of environmental consequences. ...