气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry

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DOI	10.1038/s41893-018-0136-7
	Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry
	Qin Y.; Höglund-Isaksson L.; Byers E.; Feng K.; Wagner F.; Peng W.; Mauzerall D.L.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	505
结束页码	511
卷号	1 期号:9
英文摘要	Both energy production and consumption can simultaneously affect regional air quality, local water stress and the global climate. Identifying the air quality–carbon–water interactions due to both energy sources and end-uses is important for capturing potential co-benefits while avoiding unintended consequences when designing sustainable energy transition pathways. Here, we examine the air quality–carbon–water interdependencies of China’s six major natural gas sources and three end-use gas-for-coal substitution strategies in 2020. We find that replacing coal with gas sources other than coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG) generally offers national air quality–carbon–water co-benefits. However, SNG achieves air quality benefits while increasing carbon emissions and water demand, particularly in regions that already suffer from high per capita carbon emissions and severe water scarcity. Depending on end-uses, non-SNG gas-for-coal substitution results in enormous variations in air quality, carbon and water improvements, with notable air quality–carbon synergies but air quality–water trade-offs. This indicates that more attention is needed to determine in which end-uses natural gas should be deployed to achieve the desired environmental improvements. Assessing air quality–carbon–water impacts across local, regional and global administrative levels is crucial for designing and balancing the co-benefits of sustainable energy development and deployment policies at all scales. © 2018, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Air quality; Carbon; Coal; Commerce; Economic and social effects; Energy conservation; Gas industry; Gases; Natural gas; Sustainable development; Energy productions; Environmental improvements; Natural gas sources; Regional air quality; Sustainable energy development; Synthetic natural gas; Unintended consequences; Water interactions; Natural gas substitutes
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163432
作者单位	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Qin Y.,Höglund-Isaksson L.,Byers E.,等. Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry[J],2018,1(9).
APA	Qin Y..,Höglund-Isaksson L..,Byers E..,Feng K..,Wagner F..,...&Mauzerall D.L..(2018).Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry.Nature Sustainability,1(9).
MLA	Qin Y.,et al."Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry".Nature Sustainability 1.9(2018).