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Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, July 2015
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58 news outlets
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10 blogs
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1 policy source
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181 X users
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7 Facebook pages
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5 Google+ users
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Title
Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013
Published in
Nature Communications, July 2015
DOI 10.1038/ncomms8714
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kuishuang Feng, Steven J. Davis, Laixiang Sun, Klaus Hubacek

Abstract

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the United States decreased by ∼11% between 2007 and 2013, from 6,023 to 5,377 Mt. This decline has been widely attributed to a shift from the use of coal to natural gas in US electricity production. However, the factors driving the decline have not been quantitatively evaluated; the role of natural gas in the decline therefore remains speculative. Here we analyse the factors affecting US emissions from 1997 to 2013. Before 2007, rising emissions were primarily driven by economic growth. After 2007, decreasing emissions were largely a result of economic recession with changes in fuel mix (for example, substitution of natural gas for coal) playing a comparatively minor role. Energy-climate policies may, therefore, be necessary to lock-in the recent emissions reductions and drive further decarbonization of the energy system as the US economy recovers and grows.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Japan 1 <1%
Unknown 280 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 65 23%
Researcher 46 16%
Student > Master 30 11%
Student > Bachelor 23 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 6%
Other 52 18%
Unknown 50 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 67 24%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 26 9%
Engineering 26 9%
Social Sciences 16 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 15 5%
Other 57 20%
Unknown 77 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 668. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 November 2022.
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#32,063
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Outputs from Nature Communications
#575
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Outputs of similar age
#261
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#5
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