Rural-urban migration and its growing carbon footprint will challenge the world in keeping global average temperature increase to 1.5℃ compared to pre-industrial levels. Existing studies have investigated the emissions of migrants at the national level. However, there has been no clear and...

China proposed a CO2 mitigation target in 2020 to deal with anthropogenic global climate change. Chinese policy makers mainly focus on three factors comprising consumption structure changes, energy technology development, and new energy increments. In addition, sectoral CO2 reduction is...

As the capital of China, Beijing is regarded as a major metropolis in the world. Study of the variation in temporal CO2 emissions generated by the driving forces in Beijing can provide guidance for policy decisions on CO2 emissions mitigation in global metropolises. Based on input–output...

Sustainable urban materials management is significant for environmental sustainability. This study identifies key economic sectors for sustainable urban materials management using urban physical input–output (PIOT) table and hierarchical cluster analysis method to mitigate urban air pollutants...