演讲题目：The Slowdown in China’s Carbon Emissions Growth in the New Phase of Economic Development

演讲人：米志付（Zhifu Mi）教授

演讲时间：12月25日（周三）上午10:00-11:30

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 报告摘要：China’s CO2 emissions have plateaued under its commitment to reaching peak carbon emissions before 2030 in order to mitigate global climate change. This commitment is aligned with China’s turn toward more sustainable development, named “the new normal” phase. This study aims to explore the role of possible socioeconomic drivers of China’s CO2 emission changes by using structural decomposition analysis (SDA) for 2002–2017. The results show deceleration of China’s annual emissions growth from 10% (2002–2012) to 0.3% (2012–2017), which is mainly caused by gains in energy efficiency, deceleration of economic growth, and changes in consumption patterns. Gains in energy efficiency are the most important determinants, offsetting the increase by 49% during 2012–2017. The recent moderation of emission growth is also attributed to China’s decelerating annual growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from 12% (2002–2012) to 6% (2012–2017) and to the economic transformation to consumption-led patterns in the new normal phase.

演讲人简介：米志付博士，英国伦敦大学学院助理教授，伦敦政治经济学院高级访问学者。担任SCI期刊Journal of Cleaner Production（中科院一区）执行主编，SCI期刊Advances in Climate Change Research副主编，SSCI期刊Structural Change and Economic Dynamics副主编。研究方向为气候变化经济学和能源政策。在Science Advances、Nature Energy (影响因子：54)、Nature Geoscience、Nature Communications等期刊发表SCI/SSCI论文50余篇，其中ESI热点论文9篇，ESI高被引论文20篇。入选福布斯欧洲“30位30岁以下”学术精英榜单。荣获2018年世界可持续发展奖，2018年Nature Communications地球与行星科学前50名论文奖，2017年中国经济学优秀博士论文奖，2017年中国百篇最具影响国际学术论文奖，2017年Environmental Research Letters最佳青年学者论文奖，2016年Applied Energy高被引原创论文奖。曾受牛津大学出版社邀请撰写气候变化综合评估模型的综述文章。多次受邀参加联合国可持续发展大会和联合国气候变化大会。