A National Key R&D Program: Technologies and Guidelines for Monitoring Ecological Quality of Terrestrial Ecosystems in China

Ecological quality is defined as the stability, adaptability and resilience of an ecosystem. Monitoring and assessing ecological quality are important bases for China's ecological civilization construction. The national key research and development program “Technologies and guidelines for monitoring ecological quality of terrestrial ecosystems in China”, launched in July 2017, includes plans to study the observation technologies and provide guidelines on the ecological in-situ observation, the regional biodiversity and ecosystem function monitoring and its applications, all of which contribute to national ecological quality assessment. A year after its implementation, some important progress has been achieved, such as building the indicator system for comprehensive monitoring of ecological quality and improvement of the methods, mass data transmission, infrared camera-based monitoring of biodiversity, multi-angle automatic spectral observation systems, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based desert monitoring. We have organized this special issue and attempted to introduce the monitoring techniques and assessment methods on ecological quality from different perspectives in order to further promote the development of ecology and its observation methods.     

Impact of climate variability and anthropogenic activity on streamflow in the Three Rivers Headwater Region,Tibetan Plateau,China

Under the impacts of climate variability and human activities, there is violent fluctuation for streamflow in the large basins in China. Therefore, it is crucial to separate the impacts of climate variability and human activities on streamflow fluctuation for better water resources planning and management. In this study, the Three Rivers Headwater Region (TRHR) was chosen as the study area. Long-term hydrological data for the TRHR were collected in order to investigate the changes in annual runoff during the period of 1956–2012. The nonparametric Mann–Kendall test, moving t test, Pettitt test, Mann–Kendall–Sneyers test, and the cumulative anomaly curve were used to identify trends and change points in the hydro-meteorological variables. Change point in runoff was identified in the three basins, which respectively occurred around the years 1989 and 1993, dividing the long-term runoff series into a natural period and a human-induced period. Then, the hydrologic sensitivity analysis method was employed to evaluate the effects of climate variability and human activities on mean annual runoff for the human-induced period based on precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. In the human-induced period, climate variability was the main factor that increased (reduced) runoff in LRB and YARB (YRB) with contribution of more than 90 %, while the increasing (decreasing) percentage due to human activities only accounted for less than 10 %, showing that runoff in the TRHR is more sensitive to climate variability than human activities. The intra-annual distribution of runoff shifted gradually from a double peak pattern to a single peak pattern, which was mainly influenced by atmospheric circulation in the summer and autumn. The inter-annual variation in runoff was jointly controlled by the East Asian monsoon, the westerly, and Tibetan Plateau monsoons.

     

碳交易政策的经济影响:以广东省为例

通过构建广东省两区域动态模型,对广东省碳交易及其他政策措施进行定量评估,分析实施可调控总量的碳交易政策机制对广东省及参与交易部门的经济影响。研究结果表明,按照减排情景到2015年广东完成19.5%的碳强度下降目标,相比基准情景,GDP将减少0.7%;按照强减排情景到2015年将完成20.5%的碳强度下降目标,相比基准情景GDP将减少0.9%;如果在强减排情景的基础上实施碳交易政策,GDP相对基准情景减少0.8%,到2015年实施碳交易政策可减少GDP损失约90亿元,说明广东建立碳排放权交易机制能够发挥支持经济发展和节能减碳双赢的作用。     

碳税和碳交易机制的行业减排成本比较优势研究

碳税和碳交易机制是控制温室气体排放的环境管理工具,对工业行业的减排成本造成不同的影响。以污染控制政策的稳态总期望社会成本函数为基础构建碳减排成本函数,比较碳税和碳交易机制下水泥行业减排成本,发现影响两种环境管理工具成本的要素。以广东和山东水泥行业的实证数据进行模拟分析,得到如下结论：当碳价和碳税税率差距不大时,由于碳交易机制需要较高的建设成本,碳税更具成本优势;短期内,由于减排技术投入成本较高,与强制性的行政管理手段相比,碳交易机制更具成本效益;碳价、碳税税率、最佳可获得技术的价格、企业预期、碳交易建设与管理成本都会影响碳交易机制和碳税在减排成本上的比较优势。建议设计互补型碳排放管理政策组合,使碳税和碳交易机制发挥各自的制度优势。     

碳普惠制下市民乘坐地铁出行减碳量核算方法研究——以广州为例

碳普惠制是一种以城市居民为主体的温室气体自愿减排机制。将乘坐地铁出行作为低碳行为纳入碳普惠制,是建设全民参与型低碳社会的重要探索。本文提出了替代法和均值法两种市民乘坐地铁出行减碳量的核算方法,并以广州市为例,计算了2015年广州市民乘坐地铁出行的减碳量。结果显示：替代法下广州市民乘坐地铁出行的减碳量约为0.5419 kg CO₂/人次,均值法下约为0.5155 kg CO₂/人次,如果按2015年广州市地铁系统的客运量计算,替代法和均值法下全市地铁系统的年减碳量分别约为130万t CO₂和124万t CO₂。其中,替代法主要参考已有的CCER方法学设计,具有一定的理论基础,但其替代出行模式的确定受被调查对象的主观影响较大,而均值法以城市现有的机动化出行模式为基准线,较少受到人为因素的干扰,均值法被认为更适合于计算碳普惠制下市民乘坐地铁出行的碳减排量。     

城市居住人口空间分布的模拟研究——以广州市天河区为例

为解决以行政区为单位的人口数据空间表示法无法准确反映人口实际分布的问题,文章以广州市天河区为例,利用高分辨率遥感影像数据,采用面向对象法对建筑进行提取和分类,并结合广州市土地利用现状图对分类结果进行验证和修订.在此基础上,利用土地利用密度法估算研究区各街道居住建筑的人口密度,并采用格网法进一步构建城市人口空间分布模型模拟城市居住人口的空间分布.结果表明,广州市天河区的人口主要集中在广园快速公路以南的带状区域内,中心商业区和工业密集区的人口密度最大,主干道附近区域的人口密度显著大于其他区域;距离城市中心较远的新塘、凤凰、长兴、龙洞等街道的人口密度整体偏低,模拟结果与研究区的实际情况相符.文章采用的数据可获得性强,操作方法简单,估算精确度高;研究提高了建筑解译和分类的效率,真实地反映了城市人口的空间分布特征,建模方法和研究思路具有一定推广意义.     

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中国碳捕集、利用与封存立法和监管体系研究

碳捕集、利用与封存技术（CCUS）被认为是进行温室气体深度减排最重要的技术路径之一。为了促进CCUS技术的发展与应用,欧盟、英国、美国等国家和地区一直积极倡导CCUS实施的制度化和规范化。通过对与CCUS相关的国际公约、重点国家和地区的政策、法规进行系统的梳理,以及对中国的法律制度体系和CCUS政策法规现状的整理,中国CCUS立法和监管体系建立的关键在于解决CO₂的定性、地表权和地下权的确定、保障健康、安全和环境、知识产权的转移和保护、项目审批制度以及激励政策体系的建立等,应有针对性地构建CCUS政策法规体系,逐步完善CCUS政策法规环境,从而推动CCUS在中国的健康发展。