ABSTRACT
According to the People’s Republic of China Initial
National Communication on Climate Change
(2004), China’s 1994 national greenhouse gas inven-
tories covered the emissions and sinks of carbon
dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from 5 sectors,
namely, energy, industrial processes, agriculture,
land-use changes and forestry, and waste. As shown
in Table1-1, the national total amount of carbon dio-
xide emissions in 1994 was 3,073 million tons, and
carbon reduction from land-use change and forestry
was about 407 million tons. After deducting the car-
bon sink, the net emission of carbon dioxide in 1994
was 2,666 million tons (about 727 million tons of
carbon), and the per capita emission was about 0.6
ton carbon/year. The total amount of methane emis-
sions in China in 1994 was approximately 34.29 mil-
lion tons and that of nitrous oxide was about 0.85
million tons (The People’s Republic of China Initial
National Communication on Climate Change 2004).
