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Reply to 'Emission effects of the Chinese-Russian gas deal'

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Orlov et al.1 suggest that, unless policy changes, economic factors will mean that only a small fraction of Russian gas will be substituted for coal consumption in China as a consequence of a pipeline agreement, contrasting with results from our research2. We agree that is so. But policy trends do suggest a drive towards cleaner forms of energy.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Zhuhai, 100875, 519087, China

    Wenjie Dong, Wenping Yuan, Peijun Shi & Jieming Chou

  2. State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS, Lanzhou, 730000, China

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  3. State Engineering Laboratory of Southern Forestry Applied Ecology and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004, Hunan, China

    Shuguang Liu

  4. College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    John Moore & Xuefeng Cui

  5. Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission, Beijing, 100038, China

    Shengbo Feng & Kejun Jiang

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Dong, W., Yuan, W., Liu, S. et al. Reply to 'Emission effects of the Chinese-Russian gas deal'. Nature Clim Change 6, 114–115 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2851

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