Initial Declines in China’s Provincial Energy Consumption and Their Drivers

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Jiamin Ou is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the winner of the 2018 YSSP Mihalevich Award, given by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Her research focus is energy and ozone pollution in China from a consumption-based perspective. Heran Zheng is a PhD student at University of East Anglia, UK. He specializes in environmental economics and input-output analysis. His work focuses on city-level input-output model development and low-carbon transitions at urbanization. Dr. Jing Meng is a lecturer at the University College London, UK. Her research focus is climate change and air pollution policies, including theories and modeling of environmental economics, energy innovation and sustainable consumption, and trade policies. She earned a PhD in Environmental Geography at Peking University (2016), and then she worked at the University of East Anglia and University of Cambridge as a research associate. She currently is also a research fellow of Cambridge Center for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge. Dr. Yuli Shan is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia and an afflicated researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He was awarded as a “Green Talent” by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2018. His work focuses on emission accounting, climate change economics, and sustainable development. He has published over 40 papers and has been covered by several media outlets, including Reuters, Financial Times, Xinhua News Agency, People’s Network, etc. In June 2019, Yuli will join the University of Groningen as a Research Fellow. Dr. Zhifu Mi is a lecturer at the University College London and serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Cleaner Production. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Communications. He was selected to join the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in recognition of his innovative research in the economics of climate change. He was awarded the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2017 Best Early Career Article in Environmental Research Letters, and the 2016 Highly Cited Original Paper in Applied Energy. Dabo Guan is a Chair in Climate Change Economics at the University of East Anglia, a Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China, and a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK. He specializes in climate change economics for international climate change mitigation and adaptation and their applications in developing countries. He was a Lead Author for the IPCC AR5. He was the Highly Cited Researcher for 2018. He received the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize 2014, the Leontief Prize 3 times, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize. His paper about climate change impact on beer consumption received the 2018 Altimetric Top 100 award.