Jing Cheng

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• FEATURED · Nature Climate Change · 2026 · ENERGY · HEALTH · CLIMATE · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

  Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution

  Candelaria Bergero, Jing Cheng, Qiang Zhang, Yang Ou, Haewon McJeon, Morgan R. Edwards, Destenie Nock, Inês Azevedo, Steven J. Davis

  Limiting carbon dioxide removal (CDR) leaves lower residual co-pollutant emissions and so avoids more PM₂.₅-related deaths--disproportionately benefiting non-white and low-income communities, implying that—absent deliberate transition planning—large-scale CDR deployment could undercut the equitable distribution of the health co-benefits of decarbonization.

  Companion tool: Air pollution at net-zero

  

• Nature · 2025 · ENERGY · CLIMATE · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

  Strategies for climate-resilient global wind and solar power systems

  Dongsheng Zheng, Xizhe Yan, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira, Yuanyuan Lin, Yaqin Guo, Jingyun Li, Peng Wang, Liying Ping, Shijie Feng, Yang Liu, Jing Cheng, Deliang Chen, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang

  2025 102 cites 2026

• FEATURED · Nature Climate Change · 2025 · MATERIALS · ENERGY · MITIGATION

  Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios

  Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Ruochong Xu, Yue Qin, Qiang Zhang, Karan Bhuwalka, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis

  In most countries, there are less trade risks to energy security when decarbonizing. Less dependence on fossil fuel imports, but more on critical minerals.

  2025 31 cites 2026

  Brief

  

• Nature Climate Change · 2023 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

  Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry

  Ruochong Xu, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Xinying Qin, Jing Cheng, Qinren Shi, Yang Liu, Cuihong Chen, Liu Yan, Xizhe Yan, Huaxuan Wang, Dongsheng Zheng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang

  2023 127 cites 2026

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