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DOI | 10.1038/s41558-019-0649-8 |
Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa | |
Steckel, Jan Christoph1,2; Hilaire, Jerome1,2; Jakob, Michael1; Edenhofer, Ottmar1,2,3 | |
2020 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE |
ISSN | 1758-678X |
EISSN | 1758-6798 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 10期号:1页码:83-+ |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany |
英文摘要 | Economic development in sub-Saharan Africa has increased carbon emissions and will continue to do so. However, changes in emissions in the past few decades and their underlying drivers are not well understood. Here we use a Kaya decomposition to show that rising carbon intensity has played an increasingly important role in emission growth in sub-Saharan Africa since 2005. These changes have mainly been driven by the increasing use of oil, especially in the transportation sector. Combining investment data in the power sector with economic and population projections, we find that investments in new coal-fired capacity may become a major driver of future carbonization. Our results highlight the importance of making low-carbon technologies available and financially attractive to sub-Saharan African countries to avoid a lock-in of emission-intensive energy use patterns. GHG emissions in sub-Saharan African countries are comparatively low, but continued economic and population growth could transform the region into a major emitter. Here, it is shown that the transportation sector has driven emissions in the past few decades, but new coal investments are likely to be a major driver in the near future. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000508087400023 |
WOS关键词 | INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT ; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION ; ECONOMIC-GROWTH |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/280366 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Mercator Res Inst Global Commons & Climate Change, Berlin, Germany; 2.Leibniz Assoc, Potsdam Inst Climate Change Impact Res, Potsdam, Germany; 3.Tech Univ Berlin, Dept Econ Climate Change, Berlin, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Steckel, Jan Christoph,Hilaire, Jerome,Jakob, Michael,et al. Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa[J]. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,2020,10(1):83-+. |
APA | Steckel, Jan Christoph,Hilaire, Jerome,Jakob, Michael,&Edenhofer, Ottmar.(2020).Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa.NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,10(1),83-+. |
MLA | Steckel, Jan Christoph,et al."Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa".NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 10.1(2020):83-+. |
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