• Highlights

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    1. International trade reduces emissions through technology transfer led by key emitters, Nature Climate Change, 2026. Read more...
    2. Consumption inequalities in material use undermining resources sustainability, Nature Sustainability, 2026. Read more...
    3. Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming, Nature Communications, 2026. Read more...
    4. China’s unfinished buildings have created stranded assets with substantial resource and socioeconomic costs, One Earth, 2026. Read more...
    5. Tracking grid-level freshwater boundary exceedance along global supply chains from consumption to impact, Nature Water, 2025. Read more...
    6. Global methane footprints growth and drivers 1990-2023, Nature Communications, 2025. Read more...
    7. Leveraging multinational enterprises to reduce the escalating regional carbon inequality in China, Nature Communications, 2025. Read more...
    8. Unlocking global carbon reduction potential by embracing low-carbon lifestyles, Nature Communications, 2025. Read more...
    9. Reducing climate change impacts from the global food system through diet shifts, Nature Climate Change, 2024. Read more...
    10. Global spillover effects of the European Green Deal and plausible mitigation options, Nature Sustainability, 2024. Read more...
    11. Outsourced carbon mitigation efforts of Chinese cities from 2012 to 2017, Nature Cities, 2024. Read more...
    12. Contribution of concrete nitrogenation to global NOx uptake, Nature Cities, 2024. Read more...
    13. Burden of the global energy price crisis on households, Nature Energy, 2023. Read more...
    14. Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption, Nature Sustainability, 2023. Read more...
    15. Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland, Nature Sustainability, 2023. Read more...
    16. Changes in global food consumption increase GHG emissions despite efficiency gains along global supply chains, Nature Food, 2023. Read more...
    17. Projecting future carbon emissions from cement production in developing countries, Nature Communications, 2023. Read more...
    18. Allocating capital-associated CO2 emissions along the full lifespan of capital investments helps diffuse emission responsibility, Nature Communications, 2023. Read more...
    19. The global power sector’s low-carbon transition may enhance sustainable development goal achievement, Nature Communications, 2023. Read more...
    20. Leveraging opportunity of low carbon transition by super-emitter cities in China, Science Bulletin, 2023. Read more...
    21. Seizing the window of opportunity to mitigate the impact of climate change on the health of Chinese residents (把握机会窗口期减缓气候变化对中国居民健康影响), Science Bulletin (科学通报), 2023. Read more...
    22. The heterogeneous driving forces behind carbon emissions change in 30 selective emerging economies, Patterns, 2023. Read more...
    23. Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation, The Innovation Geosciences, 2023. Read more...
    24. City-level emission peak and drivers in China, Science Bulletin, 2022. Read more...
    25. Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions, Nature Sustainability, 2022. Read more...
    26. Global mitigation efforts cannot neglect emerging emitters, National Science Review, 2022. Read more...
    27. Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement, Nature Climate Change, 2021. Read more...
    28. Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of decoupling of economic growth and CO2 emissions between 2005 and 2015, One Earth, 2021. Read more...
    29. The 2021 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: seizing the window of opportunity, The Lancet Public Health, 2021. Read more...
    30. Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups, One Earth, 2021. Read more...
    31. Sharing tableware reduces waste generation, emissions and water consumption in China’s takeaway packaging waste dilemma, Nature Food, 2020. Read more...
    32. Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement, Nature Climate Change, 2020. Read more...
    33. Role of export industries on ozone pollution and its precursors in China, Nature Communications, 2020. Read more...
    34. The Slowdown in China’s Carbon Emissions Growth in the New Phase of Economic Development, One Earth, 2019. Read more...
    35. Initial Declines in China’s Provincial Energy Consumption and Their Drivers, Joule, 2019. Read more...
    36. Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration, One Earth, 2019. Read more...
    37. City-level climate change mitigation in China, Science Advances, 2018. Read more...
    38. Structural decline in China’s CO2 emissions through transitions in industry and energy systems, Nature Geosciences, 2018. Read more...
    39. Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis, Nature Communications, 2017. Read more...