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DOI	10.1038/s41558-018-0394-4
	Integrity of firms’ emissions reporting in China’s early carbon markets
	Zhang D.; Zhang Q.; Qi S.; Huang J.; Karplus V.J.; Zhang X.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1758678X
卷号	9 期号:2
英文摘要	The integrity of greenhouse gas emissions data is essential to assess progress towards countries’ pledges under the Paris Agreement on climate change. Building credible systems for emissions measurement, reporting and verification is challenging, especially in developing countries. Using a unique dataset from two of China’s pilot emissions trading systems (Beijing and Hubei), we compare firms’ self-reported CO 2 emissions with emissions verified by third parties (‘verifiers’). In Beijing, we find that the average discrepancy fell by statistically significant levels (from 17% in 2012 to 4% in 2014 and 2015), while in Hubei it started lower and showed a statistically insignificant decrease (from 6% in 2014 to 5% in 2015). We observe no evidence of deliberate misreporting in these two pilots, and show that improvements in firms’ reporting capacity are associated with discrepancies of decreasing magnitude in Beijing. The results suggest that the administrative and firm capabilities required to support emissions trading systems in developing countries will require substantial time and effort to build. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon dioxide; carbon emission; developing world; emissions trading; environmental economics; greenhouse gas; market conditions; China
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/124461
作者单位	Research Center for Contemporary Management, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; Climate Change and Energy Economics Study Center, Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center of Hubei Cooperative Innovation for Emissions Trading System, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, China; Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang D.,Zhang Q.,Qi S.,等. Integrity of firms’ emissions reporting in China’s early carbon markets[J],2019,9(2).
APA	Zhang D.,Zhang Q.,Qi S.,Huang J.,Karplus V.J.,&Zhang X..(2019).Integrity of firms’ emissions reporting in China’s early carbon markets.Nature Climate Change,9(2).
MLA	Zhang D.,et al."Integrity of firms’ emissions reporting in China’s early carbon markets".Nature Climate Change 9.2(2019).