Yuli Shan

Biographic Data

ID	6271908
NAME	Yuli Shan
GIVEN NAMES	Yuli
FAMILY NAME	Shan
SIGNATURE	SHAN Y
AFFILIATIONS	University of Groningen
ORCID	0000-0002-5215-8657
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	44
TOTAL CITATIONS	30
AUTHOR COUNT	44
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	3

Multinational enterprises mitigate carbon inequality across Chinese cities
Open AccessKang Lin, Kailan Tian et al.ARTICLESustainable Production and…2026
Reducing carbon inequality has become a central challenge under the carbon-neutrality agenda. However, the increasing role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in shaping regional inequality remains unclear. Using newly developed Inter-City Input–Output Tables that distinguish MNEs activities, this paper quantifies MNEs-induced carbon footprints and value added across Chinese cities, traces the interregional transfers they generate, and evaluates …
International trade reduces emissions through technology transfer led by key emitters
Open AccessJiaming Wang, Peng Wang et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2026
Assessing the unequal distribution between social benefits and costs across countries along global supply chains
Open AccessDanyang Zhang, Hui Wang et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026
Social sustainability is largely challenged by unequal exchange within global supply chains (GSCs). Unequal exchange, commonly understood as the net appropriation of value from the Global South to the Global North, arises from power asymmetries in the world economy. As a consequence of the power asymmetries, the distributions of social costs and benefits across countries along GSCs are largely imbalanced. This intensifies regional disparities and…
China’s unfinished buildings have created stranded assets with substantial resource and socioeconomic costs
Open AccessNing Zhang, Xiaoxue Gao et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2026
Consumption inequalities in material use undermining resources sustainability
Open AccessPeipei Tian, K Feng et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026References: 14
Over two-thirds of the historical carbon emissions embodied in legacy capital contribute to China's growing consumption-based emissions responsibility
Open AccessDongxiao Xu, Yan Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2026References: 40
Unveiling global energy inequality through the mismatch between embodied energy and value-added transfer
Open AccessYannan Zhou, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2025
Global trade in embodied energy plays a critical role in shaping patterns of energy access and equity, yet its implications for energy welfare remain insufficiently explored. This study examines the distribution of energy welfare embedded in trade across 141 countries and regions from 2000 to 2019 by analyzing the divergence between embodied energy transfers and the economic value they generate. The results reveal that imbalances in embodied ener…
Marginal abatement cost of urban emissions under climate policy
Open AccessYixuan Zhang, Xiangjie Zhu et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2025
MAC serves as a valid and unbiased outcome indicator to evaluate climate policy. • LCCP raises MAC via green innovation and industrial upgrading, with city variations. • A hybrid approach predicts future trajectory of city-level MAC to 2030. • Using cost-intensity matrices to classify cities and their decarbonisation roadmaps. This study evaluates the effectiveness of Low-Carbon City Pilot programme and predicts its future trajectory through 2030…
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China
Open AccessDan Wang, Zhuo Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025
Wastewater treatment plays a crucial role in removing pollutants. Water conservation and reuse of wastewater help to reduce freshwater use and to alleviate water stress. However, the extent to which water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse can contribute to water stress mitigation is not clear. This study aims to investigate the impact of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on both water quantity and quality stress miti…
Medical expenditures under climate change and SSP-informed physiological and socioeconomic scenarios in China
Open AccessDianyu Zhu, Miaomiao Liu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025Cited by: 1References: 1
Urban metabolism and emergy of China's cities
Open AccessMiaohan Tang, Jingke Hong et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2025Cited by: 1References: 56
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa
Open AccessBinyuan Liu, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024
Cities are important actors in the global challenge of tackling climate change. They are not only responsible for the majority of emissions but also highly capable of taking action. An important precondition for effective climate mitigation is a city‐level greenhouse gas emission inventory to guide mitigation action. Yet, most cities in developing countries, in particular African cities, lack that crucial information. This study aims to assess th…
Global spillover effects of the European Green Deal and plausible mitigation options
Open AccessHonglin Zhong, Yanxian Li et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 3
Achieving European Green Deal (EGD) targets for carbon removal and ecological restoration would reduce agricultural and forestry production within the European Union yet simultaneously extend ecosystem impacts elsewhere. Here we quantify such spillover impacts by coupling an extended multi-regional input–output analysis with an agro-ecological zones model. We find that EGD’s agricultural and forestry targets set for 2030 could result in a 23.9 Mh…
Changes in global trade patterns increase global inequality towards Sustainable Development Goals
Open AccessJiayu Wang, Ke Wang et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024References: 2
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions
Open AccessJiayu Wang, Chang-Jing Ji et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024Cited by: 2
Burden of the global energy price crisis on households
Open AccessYuru Guan, Yan Jin et al.ARTICLENature Energy2023
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption
Open AccessBenedikt Bruckner, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 4References: 14
City-level emission peak and drivers in China
Open AccessYuli Shan, Yuru Guan et al.ARTICLEScience Bulletin2022
Environmental Finance
Open AccessHu Tao, Shan Zhuang et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2022
Environmental finance has gained considerable attention globally as an emerging interdisciplinary research area. This study uses bibliometric analysis to systematically review major studies on environmental finance-related areas published since the 1970s. Through a bibliometric analysis of 892 environmental finance-related articles sourced from the Web of Science database, we identified the main research streams and illustrated the trending resea…
Urban and rural carbon footprints in developing countries
Open AccessMairéad Connolly, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
A good understanding of household carbon emissions is an important part of forming climate mitigation strategies to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Numerous studies have been carried out on emissions from household consumption and the inequality between urban and rural areas in high-income developed countries, but there is a lack of in-depth analysis of such differences in developing countries. Our research details household car…
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions
Open AccessBenedikt Bruckner, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 15References: 14
Assessment to China's Recent Emission Pattern Shifts
Open AccessYuru Guan, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEarth's Future2021
Energy and emission data are crucial to climate change research and mitigation efforts. The accuracy of energy statistics is essential for mitigation strategies and evaluating the performance of low carbon energy transition efforts. This study provides the most up‐to‐date emission inventories for China and its provinces for 2018 and 2019. We also update the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission inventories of China and 30 provinces since 2012 based on …
Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of decoupling of economic growth and CO2 emissions between 2005 and 2015
Open AccessYuli Shan, Shuai Fang et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
Cities, contributing more than 75% of global carbon emissions, are at the heart of climate change mitigation. Given cities' heterogeneity, they need specific low-carbon roadmaps instead of one-size-fits-all approaches. Here, we present the most detailed and up-to-date accounts of CO2 emissions for 294 cities in China and examine the extent to which their economic growth was decoupled from emissions. Results show that from 2005 to 2015, only 11% o…
Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups
Open AccessTianyang Lei, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
Balance between poverty alleviation and air pollutant reduction in China
Open AccessRuoqi Li, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021
Key targets of the sustainable development goals might be in contradiction to each other. For example, poverty alleviation may exacerbate air pollution by increasing production and associated emissions. This paper investigates the potential impacts of achieving different poverty eradication goals on typical air pollutants in China by capturing household consumption patterns for different income groups and locations, and linking it to China’s mult…

Consumption-based emission accounting for Chinese cities
Open AccessZhifu Mi, Yunkun Zhang et al.ARTICLEApplied Energy2016
New provincial CO2 emission inventories in China based on apparent energy consumption data and updated emission factors
Open AccessYuli Shan, Jianghua Liu et al.ARTICLEApplied Energy2016
Carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption of Beijing in 2012
Open AccessLing Shao, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016
The present study analyzed the consumption-based carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption of Beijing in 2012. The multi-scale input-output analysis method was applied. It is capable of tracing the carbon emissions embodied in imports based on a global multi-regional input-output analysis using Eora data. The results show that the consumption-based carbon emission of Beijing has increased by 18% since 2007, which is 2.57 times higher than the…
Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis
Open AccessZhifu Mi, Jing Meng et al.ARTICLENature Communications2017
This study seeks to estimate the carbon implications of recent changes in China’s economic development patterns and role in global trade in the post-financial-crisis era. We utilised the latest socioeconomic datasets to compile China’s 2012 multiregional input-output (MRIO) table. Environmentally extended input-output analysis and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) were applied to investigate the driving forces behind changes in CO 2 emissio…
Methodology and applications of city level CO2 emission accounts in China
Open AccessYuli Shan, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cleaner Production2017
China is the world's largest energy consumer and CO2 emitter. Cities contribute 85% of the total CO2 emissions in China and thus are considered as the key areas for implementing policies designed for climate change adaption and CO2 emission mitigation. However, the emission inventory construction of Chinese cities has not been well researched, mainly owing to the lack of systematic statistics and poor data quality. Focusing on this research gap, …
Pattern changes in determinants of Chinese emissions
Open AccessZhifu Mi, Jing Meng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017
The Chinese economy has been recovering slowly from the global financial crisis, but it cannot achieve the same rapid development of the pre-recession period. Instead, the country has entered a new phase of economic development—a 'new normal'. We use a structural decomposition analysis and environmental input–output analysis to estimate the determinants of China's carbon emission changes during 2005–2012. China's imports are linked to a global mu…
City-level climate change mitigation in China
Open AccessYuli Shan, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2018
Technological advancement in industrializing cities is critical for reducing CO 2 emissions while maintaining economic growth.
China CO2 emission accounts 1997–2015
Open AccessYuli Shan, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEScientific Data2018
China is the world’s top energy consumer and CO 2 emitter, accounting for 30% of global emissions. Compiling an accurate accounting of China’s CO 2 emissions is the first step in implementing reduction policies. However, no annual, officially published emissions data exist for China. The current emissions estimated by academic institutes and scholars exhibit great discrepancies. The gap between the different emissions estimates is approximately e…
Regional development and carbon emissions in China
Open AccessJiali Zheng, Zhifu Mi et al.ARTICLEEnergy Economics2019
China announced at the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015 that the country would reach peak carbon emissions around 2030. Since then, widespread attention has been devoted to determining when and how this goal will be achieved. This study aims to explore the role of China's changing regional development patterns in the achievement of this goal. This study uses the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) to estimate seven socioeconomic drivers …
Linking city‐level input–output table to urban energy footprint
Open AccessHeran Zheng, Jing Meng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019
Multiregion input–output (MRIO) models have become increasingly important in economic and environmental analysis. However, the current resolution of most MRIO models fails to capture the heterogeneity between subregions, especially in cities. The lack of city‐level MRIO tables has impeded the accomplishment of city‐level studies and hampered the understanding of the relationship between urban growth and consumption, and teleconnections to other r…
Peak cement‐related CO 2 emissions and the changes in drivers in China
Open AccessYuli Shan, Ya Zhou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019
In order to fight against the climate change, China has set a series of emission reduction policies for super‐emitting sectors. The cement industry is the major source of process‐related emissions, and more attention should be paid to this industry. This study calculates the process‐related, direct fossil fuel–related, and indirect electricity‐related emissions from China's cement industry. The study finds that China's cement‐related emissions pe…
The Slowdown in China’s Carbon Emissions Growth in the New Phase of Economic Development
Open AccessJiali Zheng, Zhifu Mi et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2019
China’s CO2 emissions have plateaued under its commitment to reaching peak carbon emissions before 2030 in order to mitigate global climate change. This commitment is aligned with China’s turn toward more sustainable development, named “the new normal” phase. This study aims to explore the role of possible socioeconomic drivers of China’s CO2 emission changes by using structural decomposition analysis (SDA) for 2002–2017. The results show deceler…
Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration
Open AccessHeran Zheng, Zongyong Zhang et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2019
Quantity and quality of China's water from demand perspectives
Open AccessXian Li, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019
China is confronted with an unprecedented water crisis regarding its quantity and quality. In this study, we quantified the dynamics of China's embodied water use and chemical oxygen demand (COD) discharge from 2010 to 2015. The analysis was conducted with the latest available water use data across sectors in primary, secondary and tertiary industries and input-output models. The results showed that (1) China's water crisis was alleviated under u…
County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017
Open AccessJiandong Chen, Ming Gao et al.ARTICLEScientific Data2020
With the implementation of China’s top-down CO 2 emissions reduction strategy, the regional differences should be considered. As the most basic governmental unit in China, counties could better capture the regional heterogeneity than provinces and prefecture-level city, and county-level CO 2 emissions could be used for the development of strategic policies tailored to local conditions. However, most of the previous accounts of CO 2 emissions in C…
China CO2 emission accounts 2016–2017
Open AccessYuli Shan, Qi Huang et al.ARTICLEScientific Data2020
Despite China’s emissions having plateaued in 2013, it is still the world’s leading energy consumer and CO 2 emitter, accounting for approximately 30% of global emissions. Detailed CO 2 emission inventories by energy and sector have great significance to China’s carbon policies as well as to achieving global climate change mitigation targets. This study constructs the most up-to-date CO 2 emission inventories for China and its 30 provinces, as we…
City‐level water withdrawal in China
Open AccessZongyong Zhang, Junguo Liu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2020
In the context of the freshwater crisis, accounting for water withdrawal could help planners better regulate water use in different sectors to combat water scarcity. However, the water withdrawal statistics in China are patchy, and the water data across all sectors at the city level appear to be relatively insufficient. Hence, we develop a general framework to, for the first time, estimate the water withdrawal of 58 economic–social–environmental …
Regional determinants of China’s consumption-based emissions in the economic transition
Open AccessHeran Zheng, Zengkai Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
China has entered the economic transition in the post-financial crisis era, with unprecedented new features that significantly lead to a decline in its carbon emissions. However, regional disparity implies different trajectories in regional decarbonisation. Here, we construct multi-regional input–output tables (MRIO) for 2012 and 2015 and quantitatively evaluate the regional disparity in decarbonisation and the driving forces during 2012–2015. We…
Assessment to China's Recent Emission Pattern Shifts
Open AccessYuru Guan, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEarth's Future2021
Energy and emission data are crucial to climate change research and mitigation efforts. The accuracy of energy statistics is essential for mitigation strategies and evaluating the performance of low carbon energy transition efforts. This study provides the most up‐to‐date emission inventories for China and its provinces for 2018 and 2019. We also update the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission inventories of China and 30 provinces since 2012 based on …
Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of decoupling of economic growth and CO2 emissions between 2005 and 2015
Open AccessYuli Shan, Shuai Fang et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
Cities, contributing more than 75% of global carbon emissions, are at the heart of climate change mitigation. Given cities' heterogeneity, they need specific low-carbon roadmaps instead of one-size-fits-all approaches. Here, we present the most detailed and up-to-date accounts of CO2 emissions for 294 cities in China and examine the extent to which their economic growth was decoupled from emissions. Results show that from 2005 to 2015, only 11% o…
Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups
Open AccessTianyang Lei, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
Balance between poverty alleviation and air pollutant reduction in China
Open AccessRuoqi Li, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021
Key targets of the sustainable development goals might be in contradiction to each other. For example, poverty alleviation may exacerbate air pollution by increasing production and associated emissions. This paper investigates the potential impacts of achieving different poverty eradication goals on typical air pollutants in China by capturing household consumption patterns for different income groups and locations, and linking it to China’s mult…
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities
Open AccessDanyang Cheng, Qianyu Xue et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 7References: 3
City-level emission peak and drivers in China
Open AccessYuli Shan, Yuru Guan et al.ARTICLEScience Bulletin2022
Environmental Finance
Open AccessHu Tao, Shan Zhuang et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2022
Environmental finance has gained considerable attention globally as an emerging interdisciplinary research area. This study uses bibliometric analysis to systematically review major studies on environmental finance-related areas published since the 1970s. Through a bibliometric analysis of 892 environmental finance-related articles sourced from the Web of Science database, we identified the main research streams and illustrated the trending resea…