Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2022
Emerging economies have become an important driver of global economic development in recent years, and they are also major contributors to the growth in global CO2 emissions. As major emitters such as the United States, the European Union, and China have successively proposed carbon neutrality targets, emerging economies will also face more severe emissions-reduction challenges under the Paris Agreement. Under the dual pressure of global climate action goals and their own economic and social development, the low-carbon transition of emerging economies has become more urgent. Many emerging economies have already proposed emissions-reduction targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), but they still lack the national, regional, and sectoral carbon emissions baseline data needed to achieve those targets.
Against this backdrop, with support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, UK Research and Innovation, the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, the Tsinghua Institute for Carbon Neutrality, and other institutions, the China Emission Accounts and Datasets team (CEADs) at Tsinghua University organized nearly one thousand Chinese and international scholars to collect, verify, and compile multi-scale carbon accounting inventories and socioeconomic and trade databases covering China and other developing economies through a data crowdsourcing approach. The team-authored Emerging Economies CO2 Emissions Report 2022 covers not only national and regional carbon emissions data for emerging economies, but also accounts for CO2 emissions by detailed energy types and different industrial sectors.
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