The urgency of assessing the greenhouse gas budgets of hydroelectric reservoirs in China

Yuanan Hu and Hefa Cheng ()
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Yuanan Hu: State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hefa Cheng: State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 8, 708-712

Abstract: China, already the largest generator of hydroelectricity, plans to accelerate dam construction. This has led to warnings that increased emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly methane, from Chinese reservoirs could constitute a 'global warming time-bomb'. A review of evidence on emissions from the Three Gorges Reservoir — the world's largest — indicates that such fears are probably misplaced.

Date: 2013
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