The expansion of natural gas infrastructure puts energy transitions at risk

C Kemfert, F Präger, I Braunger, FM Hoffart, H Brauers - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Whether additional natural gas infrastructure is needed or would be detrimental to achieving
climate protection goals is currently highly controversial. Here we combine five perspectives …

[HTML][HTML] Moving toward a new era of ecosystem science

G Yu, S Piao, Y Zhang, L Liu, J Peng, S Niu - Geography and Sustainability, 2021 - Elsevier
Ecosystem is a fundamental organizational unit of the biosphere in which biological
communities interact with their non-biological environment through energy flows and …

Environmental benefits and household costs of clean heating options in northern China

M Zhou, H Liu, L Peng, Y Qin, D Chen, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Chinese government accelerated the clean residential heating transition in northern
China as part of a successful effort to improve regional air quality. Meanwhile, China has …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of health and economic impacts of PM2. 5 and ozone pollution in China

Y Xie, H Dai, Y Zhang, Y Wu, T Hanaoka… - Environment international, 2019 - Elsevier
Many studies have reported associations between air pollution and health impacts, but few
studies have explicitly differentiated the economic effects of PM 2.5 and ozone at China's …

Strong metal–support interaction facilitated multicomponent alloy formation on metal oxide support

J Han, J Yang, Z Zhang, X Jiang, W Liu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multicomponent alloy (MA) contains a nearly infinite number of unprecedented active sites
through entropy stabilization, which is a desired platform for exploring high-performance …

Flexibility and intensity of global water use

Y Qin, ND Mueller, S Siebert, RB Jackson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Water stress is often evaluated by scarcity: the share of available water supply being
consumed by humans. However, some consumptive uses of water are more or less flexible …

Alternative-energy-vehicles deployment delivers climate, air quality, and health co-benefits when coupled with decarbonizing power generation in China

L Peng, F Liu, M Zhou, M Li, Q Zhang, DL Mauzerall - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
China is the world's largest carbon emitter and suffers from severe air pollution, which
results in approximately one million premature deaths/year. Alternative energy vehicles …

Managing China's coal power plants to address multiple environmental objectives

W Peng, F Wagner, MV Ramana, H Zhai… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
China needs to manage its coal-dominated power system to curb carbon emissions, as well
as to address local environmental priorities such as air pollution and water stress. Here we …

Deploying green hydrogen to decarbonize China's coal chemical sector

Y Guo, L Peng, J Tian, DL Mauzerall - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
China's coal chemical sector uses coal as both a fuel and feedstock and its increasing
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are hard to abate by electrification alone. Here we …

Costs of clean heating in China: Evidence from rural households in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

H Liu, DL Mauzerall - Energy Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
To address severe air pollution, the Chinese government plans to replace most residential
coal stoves in northern China with clean heating devices by 2021. Coal stove replacement …