Fig. 4: Overview of key sectors relevant to climate mitigation in the iSDG-Climate-China model.
From: A cost-effective climate mitigation pathway for China with co-benefits for sustainability
Gray boxes represent different sectors in iSDG-Climate-China model. Bolded black text presents the names of sectors, with the official abbreviation in the iSDG documentation36 of each sector in parentheses. The italicized characters in parentheses denote the proxy symbols for the variables in the corresponding sectors. Each sector is linked with multiple directly connected variables, and each line with arrow connects two variables from two sectors, which indicates that the variable at the end point is affected by the variable(s) at the starting point(s) of the line. New variables and cross-sectoral links added to the core iSDG model in this study are shown in red. For example, the negative emissions (EmW2) variable of Emissions and Waste (EmW) sector affects the mitigation cost (Gov3) variable of Government (Gov) sector. See Supplementary Methods SI1.1-SI1.8 and Supplementary Fig. 12 for more details about the newly added links in the iSDG-Climate-China model.
