Physical and virtual carbon metabolism of global cities

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	Physical and virtual carbon metabolism of global cities
	Shaoqing Chen1,2,3, Bin Chen1 , Kuishuang Feng 4, Zhu Liu 5, Neil Fromer6, Xianchun Tan7, Ahmed Alsaedi8, Tasawar Hayat8,9, Helga Weisz 10,11, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber10 & Klaus Hubacek 12,13,14*
发表期刊	Nature Communications
摘要	Urban activities have profound and lasting effects on the global carbon balance. Here we develop a consistent metabolic approach that combines two complementary carbon accounts, the physical carbon balance and the fossil fuel-derived gaseous carbon footprint, to track carbon coming into, being added to urban stocks, and eventually leaving the city. We find that over 88% of the physical carbon in 16 global cities is imported from outside their urban boundaries, and this outsourcing of carbon is notably amplified by virtual emissions from upstream activities that contribute 33–68% to their total carbon inflows. While 13–33% of the carbon appropriated by cities is immediately combusted and released as CO2, between 8 and 24% is stored in durable household goods or becomes part of other urban stocks. Inventorying carbon consumed and stored for urban metabolism should be given more credit for the role it can play in stabilizing future global climate.
	2020
卷号	11
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.casisd.cn/handle/190111/9854
专题	中国科学院科技战略咨询研究院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shaoqing Chen1,2,3, Bin Chen1 , Kuishuang Feng 4, Zhu Liu 5, Neil Fromer6, Xianchun Tan7, Ahmed Alsaedi8, Tasawar Hayat8,9, Helga Weisz 10,11, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber10 & Klaus Hubacek 12,13,14*. Physical and virtual carbon metabolism of global cities[J]. Nature Communications,2020,11.
APA	Shaoqing Chen1,2,3, Bin Chen1 , Kuishuang Feng 4, Zhu Liu 5, Neil Fromer6, Xianchun Tan7, Ahmed Alsaedi8, Tasawar Hayat8,9, Helga Weisz 10,11, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber10 & Klaus Hubacek 12,13,14*.(2020).Physical and virtual carbon metabolism of global cities.Nature Communications,11.
MLA	Shaoqing Chen1,2,3, Bin Chen1 , Kuishuang Feng 4, Zhu Liu 5, Neil Fromer6, Xianchun Tan7, Ahmed Alsaedi8, Tasawar Hayat8,9, Helga Weisz 10,11, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber10 & Klaus Hubacek 12,13,14*."Physical and virtual carbon metabolism of global cities".Nature Communications 11(2020).