[Academic Achievements] Co-authored Paper by Prof. Qi Shaozhou from the School of Economics and Management Published in Nature Climate Change

Recently, “Integrity of firms' emissions reporting in China's early carbon markets”, a paper co-authoredbyQi Shaozhou, Professor of the Department of World Economics of Wuhan University School of Economics and Management, and Director of the Center for Climate Change and Energy Economics of Wuhan University, and the scholars of Tsinghua University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was published inNature Climate Change(January 28, 2019), a subject-specific journal underNature,and the impact factor ofNature Climate Changeis 19.181 (2017-2018),whichranks the top among journals in the field of meteorology & atmosphere and environment.

The paper argues that the integrity of greenhouse gas emissions data is critical to assessing the progress of countries' commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, especially in developing countries, where the establishment of reliable greenhouse gas emissions measurement, reporting and verification systems is a challenge.

The paper also uses the econometric model to conduct a number of tests to check whether there was any evidence that anyone had deliberately misreported or colluded with the verification agency during the data reporting and verification process. The evidence was not found in the study.

Professor Qi Shaozhou has been engaged in the studies of climate change and energy economic theory and policy for a long time, and established the “Wuhan University Climate Change and Energy Economy (CCEE)” innovation team to actively promote the development of the discipline of climate change and energy economics and the training of professionals in Wuhan University. As the chief expert, he presided over a major research project of philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education -- “Research on China's carbon emission trading system under the low-carbon economy transition”. The monograph published was funded by the National Social Science Fund as a 2018 Chinese Academic Translation Project.