Academic Journal

Environmental Consequences of Potential Strategies for China to Prepare for Natural Gas Import Disruptions

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Environmental Consequences of Potential Strategies for China to Prepare for Natural Gas Import Disruptions
المؤلفون: Yue Qin (634751), Mi Zhou (9884), Da Pan (102527), Zbigniew Klimont (1969999), Daniel B. Gingerich (6689444), Denise L. Mauzerall (1770607), Lei Zhao (144153), Gang He (239353), Jeffrey M. Bielicki (11891107)
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Smithsonian Institution: Digital Repository
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Ecology, Sociology, Space Science, Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified, Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified, Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified, water impacts simultaneously, water consumption impacts, natural gas imports, may offer opportunities, intensifying geopolitical uncertainties, inadequate domestic production, improving energy efficiency, excess premature deaths, domestic storage capacity, cleaner fossil combustion, aggravated water stress, 100 – 24, reduce negative carbon, human health impacts, clean energy transition, increased carbon emissions, carbon emissions, human health, significantly reduce, switch away, short term, results highlight, progressive electrification
الوصف: Worldwide efforts to switch away from coal have increased the reliance on natural gas imports for countries with inadequate domestic production. In preparing for potential gas import disruptions, there have been limited attempts to quantify the environmental and human health impacts of different options and incorporate them into decision-making. Here, we analyze the air pollution, human health, carbon emissions, and water consumption impacts under a set of planning strategies to prepare for potentially fully disrupted natural gas imports in China. We find that, with China’s current natural gas storage capacity, compensating for natural gas import disruptions using domestic fossil fuels (with the current average combustion technology) could lead up to 23,300 (95% CI: 22,100–24,500) excess premature deaths from air pollution, along with increased carbon emissions and aggravated water stress. Improving energy efficiency, more progressive electrification and decarbonization, cleaner fossil combustion, and expanding natural gas storage capacity can significantly reduce the number of excess premature deaths and may offer opportunities to reduce negative carbon and water impacts simultaneously. Our results highlight the importance for China to increase the domestic storage capacity in the short term, and more importantly, to promote a clean energy transition to avoid potentially substantial environmental consequences under intensifying geopolitical uncertainties in China. Therefore, mitigating potential negative environmental impacts related to insecure natural gas supply provides additional incentives for China to facilitate a clean and efficient energy system transition.
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Relation: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Environmental_Consequences_of_Potential_Strategies_for_China_to_Prepare_for_Natural_Gas_Import_Disruptions/17710912
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03685.s001
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c03685.s001
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.B116CE22
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.1021/acs.est.1c03685.s001