From enhancing to stabilizing carbon sinks: climate risk and the resilience of urban carbon sink systems in China

Reshaping urban resilience: can climate-resilient city pilot mitigate urban climate risks? evidence from Chinese cities

Extreme climate shocks and agricultural net carbon sinks: the moderating role of supply chain resilience in China

Extreme climate shocks increasingly challenge the ability of agricultural systems to sustain crop carbon fixation while controlling production-related emissions. Using panel data for 240 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2023, this study examines the relationships between four climate shocks—extreme high temperatu...

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Influencing Mechanisms of Land-Use Carbon Emissions in Counties of Northern Henan, China

Climate warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, severely threatens ecosystems and human societies. Accelerated by urbanization, land-use changes have significantly exacerbated climate change and disrupted carbon dynamics. Counties are key administrative units in China and are crucial for...

Impact of Climate Change on Sustainable Development in China: A Regional Metabolism Perspective

Climate change poses considerable challenges to global communities. This study proposes a novel framework that integrates seasonality and resilience to analyze regional metabolic responses to climate change in China. By using urban metabolism based on emergy analysis, this study quantifies material and energy flows w...

Climate extremes and grain green productivity in China: buffering effects of agricultural insurance and high-standard farmland

Extreme climate shocks are increasingly reshaping the sustainability, resilience, and environmental performance of grain production systems, particularly in countries facing the dual challenge of safeguarding food security and accelerating agricultural green transformation. This study investigates how extreme climate r...

Utilising urban energy structure as a carbon management strategy for carbon emissions mitigation and climate neutrality

Achieving urban carbon neutrality is critical to mitigating global warming and demands transformative regulation of carbon flows within urban energy systems. This study constructs an energy structure influencing factors (ESIF) evaluation system for urban energy structure, using improved principal component analysis (...