County-level intensity of carbon emissions from crop farming in China during 2000–2019

Li, Cheng, Jia, Junwen, Wu, Fang, Zuo, Lijun and Cui, Xuefeng 2024. County-level intensity of carbon emissions from crop farming in China during 2000–2019. Scientific Data 11 , 457. 10.1038/s41597-024-03296-y

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Abstract

Agriculture is an important contributor to global carbon emissions. With the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and China’s carbon neutral strategy, accurate estimation of carbon emissions from crop farming is essential to reduce agricultural carbon emissions and promote sustainable food production systems in China. However, previous long-term time series estimates in China have mainly focused on the national and provincial levels, which are insufficient to characterize regional heterogeneity. Here, we selected the county-level administrative district as the basic geographical unit and then generated a county-level dataset on the intensity of carbon emissions from crop farming in China during 2000–2019, using random forest regression with multi-source data. This dataset can be used to delineate spatio-temporal changes in carbon emissions from crop farming in China, providing an important basis for decision makers and researchers to design agricultural carbon reduction strategies in China.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Type: open-access
Publisher:	Nature Research
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 May 2024
Date of Acceptance:	23 April 2024
Last Modified:	07 May 2024 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168729

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