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• Comment | 06 November 2023

  Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland

  The rapid spread of solar power plants onto cropland is having increasingly detrimental impacts. Targeted policy and technological solutions are urgently needed to resolve the tension between renewable energy and food production.

  • Ning Zhang
  • , Huabo Duan
  •  & Xuemei Bai

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  30 June 2022 | Open Access

  Global patterns of daily CO₂ emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19

  Observed daily changes in CO₂ emissions from across the globe reveal the sectors and countries where pandemic-related emissions declines were most pronounced in 2020.

  • Zhu Liu
  • , Zhu Deng
  •  & Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

• Article | 02 July 2018

  Structural decline in China’s CO₂ emissions through transitions in industry and energy systems

  The decline in China’s CO₂ emissions in the past few years is largely due to changes in industrial structure and a decline in the share of coal for energy production, according to a quantitative analysis of the drivers of CO₂ emissions.

  • Dabo Guan
  • , Jing Meng
  •  & Steven J. Davis

• Commentary | 25 July 2016

  China's post-coal growth

  Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution and clean energy have caused China's coal use to peak. It seems that economic growth has decoupled from growth in coal consumption.

  • Ye Qi
  • , Nicholas Stern
  •  & Fergus Green