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SUBMITTER: Ou J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7603491 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20201030 1
This study seeks to estimate how global supply chain relocates emissions of tropospheric ozone precursors and its impacts in shaping ozone formation. Here we show that goods produced in China for foreign markets lead to an increase of domestic non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) emissions by 3.5 million tons in 2013; about 13% of the national total or, equivalent to half of emissions from European Union. Production for export increases concentration of NMVOCs (including some carcinog ...[more]