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Source Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at identifying the relative contribution of different sectors, activities, and entities to global climate change. It includes research on the respective contributions of national governments and private corporations to increases in global greenhouse gas concentrations (through both emissions and land use changes). It also includes research on the respective obligations of different entities to mitigate their contributions to climate change.

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Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions

March 2021
M. Crippa, E. Solazzo, D. Guizzardi, F. Monforti-Ferrario, F. N. Tubiello, A. Leip
Nature
In 2015, food-system emissions amounted to 18 Gt CO2 equivalent per year globally, representing 34% of total GHG emissions. Read More →

Spatiotemporal patterns of industrial carbon emissions at the city level

February 2021
Lei Chena, Linyu Xu, Yanpeng Cai, Zhifeng Yang
Elsevier
This study aimed to measure the industrial carbon emissions by energy consumption and the cement production process in Guangdong from 2005–2015.Read More →

Nonlinear influence of urbanization on China’s urban residential building carbon emissions: New evidence from panel threshold model

February 2021
Tengfei Huo, Ruijiao Cao, Hongyan Du, Jing Zhang, Weiguang Cai, Bingsheng Liu
Elsevier
This study explores the dynamic influence mechanism of the urbanization on urban residential building CO2 emissions.Read More →

Assessment of pre-industrial to present-day anthropogenic climate forcing in UKESM1

January 2021
O'Connor, F. M., Abraham, N. L., Dalvi, M., Folberth, G. A., Griffiths, P. T., Hardacre, C., Johnson, B. T., Kahana, R., Keeble, J., Kim, B., Morgenstern, O., Mulcahy, J. P., Richardson, M., Robertson, E., Seo, J., Shim, S., Teixeira, J. C., Turnock, S. T., Williams, J., Wiltshire, A. J., Woodward, S., and Zeng, G
European Geosciences Union
The authors quantify and analyse a wide range of present-day anthropogenic effective radiative forcings with the UK's Earth System Model, UKESM1.Read More →

Study on the Quantitative Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions in Sewage-Sludge Treatment System

November 2020
Zhiyi Liang, Toru Matsumoto, Lei Zhang, Bing Liu
Springer
This study contains estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from sewage-sludge treatment considering CO2 emissions from sewage treatment and N2O emissions from sludge treatment.Read More →

The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change

November 2020
Stefan Gössling, Andreas Humpe
Science Direct
This study discusses the scale, distribution and growth of aviation until 2018, also with a view to consider the climate change implications of a return to volume growthRead More →

COLE – Carbon Online Estimator

October 2020
United States Department of Agriculture
COLE is a program that draws from US Forest Service FIA Data and allows users to generate estimates for forest carbon inventory and carbon growth-and-yield curves within a user-defined region of the continental United States or Alaska. Read More →

LEGAL RESOURCE – Supporting Technical Report of Dr. Carlos Afonso Nobre – Institute of Amazonian Studies v. Brazil

September 2020
Carlos Afonso Nobre
Legal Document - Institute of Amazonian Studies v. Brazil
This Expert Report filed by plaintiffs in a Brazilian Federal District Court assesses the impact of Amazon deforestation on global climate change, and on climate change impacts in Brazil.Read More →

Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary

September 2020
Jason Hickel
Elsevier
This analysis proposes a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate changeRead More →

The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

September 2020
D.S. Lee, D.W. Fahey, A. Skowron, M.R. Allen, U. Burkhardt, Q. Chen, S.J. Doherty, S. Freeman, P.M. Forster, J. Fuglestvedt, A. Gettelman, R.R. De León, L.L. Lim, M.T. Lund, R.J. Millar, B. Owen, J.E. Penner, G. Pitari, M.J. Prather, R. Sausen, L.J. Wilcox,
Atmospheric Environment
Global aviation contributes a few percent to anthropogenic radiative forcing. Comprehensive and quantitative calculations of aviation effects are presented.Read More →

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