Greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic natural gas production

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Figure 1: Scope (solid horizontal lines) and reference bases for life-cycle GHG emissions from Yang and Jackson's paper1.
Figure 2: Comparison, using revised data, of the life-cycle GHG emissions associated with the coal-to-SNG, coal-to-electricity, conventional natural gas and shale gas pathways.

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  • 11 March 2016

    In the version of this Correspondence originally published, information was inadvertently omitted from the Acknowledgements section. This has now been corrected in all online versions.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (grant no. 51306185), the 'Strategic Priority Research Program — Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Related Issues' of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. XDA05010102), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS.

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Li, S., Gao, L. Greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic natural gas production. Nature Clim Change 6, 220–221 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2887

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