On January 6, 2017, Prof. Dabo Guan from University of University of East Anglia gave a report entitled “Low carbon development in Chinese cities” at CEEP-BIT. The report was hosted by A.Prof. Biying Yu, some other teachers and students attended the report.
　　In this report, Prof. Guan focused on the inaccuracy about climate data, and introduced his CEADS database which contains Chinese provinces data from 1997-2014. With CEADS data, Guan’s team re-evaluate the coal consumption by coal’s type, and take cement carbon absorbent into account. The result shows that emission factors for Chinese coal are on average 40 per cent lower than the default values recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that emissions from China’s cement production are 45 per cent less than recent estimates. 
Prof. Da-Bo Guan is a Chair Professor in Climate Change Economics at School of International Development, University of East Anglia, and a Senior Member of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge.
　　He specializes in ecological economics, international climate change mitigation policies, climate change adaption modeling, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water accounting and water resources management, input-output techniques and their applications in both developed and developing countries.

　　He has published about 70 articles in SCI journals with high impact factors in the field of international environment, like Nature, Nature Climate Change and PNAS. He won the Leontief Prize 3 times and the Cozzarelli Prize because of his paper published in 2014 at PNAS. He has served as a Lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and he has been responsible for the 14th character (regional development and cooperation) in the 3rd working group in order to study both the carbon emission calculation between regions on a global scale and the analysis for the inflow of embodied carbon in both developed and developing countries.