!!Dabo Guan - Biography
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Professor Dabo Guan is a world-leading interdisciplinary environmental scientist working on the sources and impacts of human-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. He has applied this expertise to inform both private and public sector decision-making to tackle climate change. He is renown internationally for advancing understanding of the mutual feedbacks between human activities and climate change, and for developing the first (and since refined) quantitative estimates of developing countries’ contribution to rising global emissions and of the impacts of climate extremes on the socioeconomic networks across developing countries.\\
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He has developed three major strands of research. (a) He established the first complete and internally consistent set of emission accounts for China and more than 70 developing economies, with emissions estimated by sector, fuel, region and time. These multi-scale accounts allow accurate measurement of emissions and rigorous attribution of structural drivers such as industrialisation, urbanisation and changing trade patterns, and now form a standard empirical foundation for analysing mitigation responsibilities and options in emerging economies. (b) He created the world’s most comprehensive plant-specific emission inventories for global heavy-emitting sectors – 4,883 iron and steel plants, 5,220 cement kilns, 1,405 oil refineries and 123,330 power units – which underpin engineering-grade optimisation models for least-cost net-zero transitions under realistic technology and investment constraints. (c) He pioneered methods that integrate earth system models and epidemiological functions with multi-regional input–output and trade models to assess how climate extremes and compound events propagate through global production, trade and income networks, laying the foundation for the widely used “disaster footprint” concept.\\
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Professor Guan is the founder of the freely accessible Carbon Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) platform, recognised as one of the world’s most influential emissions datasets. CEADs provides harmonised emission and socio-economic accounts for dozens of emerging economies, has exceeded 10 million data downloads, and has been cited in thousands of academic publications and hundreds of policy and industry reports. His research has underpinned revisions of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) GHG accounting guidelines to include fuel quality variations in the compilation of emission inventories, and the setting of climate mitigation targets for China and its regions, and has provided tangible academic and societal impact through the CEADs emissions data, that have already benefited 4000+ journal articles. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (2018–2025), with an h-index 110+ and > 50,000 citations, placing him among the world’s leading climate scientists and most cited environmental engineers.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit dguan}][{ALLOW upload dguan}][{ALLOW comment All}]