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Natural Climate Solutions for China: The Last Mile to Carbon Neutrality

  • Zhangcai Qin1,
  • Xi Deng1,
  • Bronson Griscom2,
  • Yao Huang3,
  • Tingting Li4,
  • Pete Smith5,
  • Wenping Yuan1 &
  • …
  • Wen Zhang4 

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This work was jointly supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2016YFA0602701), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41975113), the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies (2020B1212060025) and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology (2019ZT08G090). We appreciate the support from the China Association for Science and Technology Working Group for UN Environment Consultation.

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  1. School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519000, China

    Zhangcai Qin, Xi Deng & Wenping Yuan

  2. Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia VA, 22202, USA

    Bronson Griscom

  3. State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Yao Huang

  4. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Tingting Li & Wen Zhang

  5. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK

    Pete Smith

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Qin, Z., Deng, X., Griscom, B. et al. Natural Climate Solutions for China: The Last Mile to Carbon Neutrality. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 38, 889–895 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-021-1031-0

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  • Published: 24 March 2021

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