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DOI	10.1038/s41558-019-0649-8
	Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa
	Steckel J.C.; Hilaire J.; Jakob M.; Edenhofer O.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1758678X
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	Economic development in sub-Saharan Africa has increased carbon emissions and will continue to do so. However, changes in emissions in the past few decades and their underlying drivers are not well understood. Here we use a Kaya decomposition to show that rising carbon intensity has played an increasingly important role in emission growth in sub-Saharan Africa since 2005. These changes have mainly been driven by the increasing use of oil, especially in the transportation sector. Combining investment data in the power sector with economic and population projections, we find that investments in new coal-fired capacity may become a major driver of future carbonization. Our results highlight the importance of making low-carbon technologies available and financially attractive to sub-Saharan African countries to avoid a lock-in of emission-intensive energy use patterns. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	coal; coal-fired power plant; decomposition analysis; economic development; energy use; investment incentive; transportation infrastructure; Sub-Saharan Africa; Torreya nucifera
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/124262
作者单位	Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research, Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany; Department Economics of Climate Change, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Steckel J.C.,Hilaire J.,Jakob M.,et al. Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa[J],2020,10(1).
APA	Steckel J.C.,Hilaire J.,Jakob M.,&Edenhofer O..(2020).Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa.Nature Climate Change,10(1).
MLA	Steckel J.C.,et al."Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa".Nature Climate Change 10.1(2020).