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CORRECTION article

Front. Sustain. Cities, 02 November 2021
Sec. Urban Energy End-Use
Volume 3 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.793575
This article is part of the Research Topic Building More Sustainable and Resilient Urban Energy Infrastructures View all 6 articles

Corrigendum: Keeping Track of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Progress and Targets in 167 Cities Worldwide

This article is a correction to:

  1. Keeping Track of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Progress and Targets in 167 Cities Worldwide

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\nTing Wei&#x;Ting Wei1†Junliang Wu&#x;Junliang Wu1†Shaoqing Chen, Shaoqing Chen1,2*
  • 1School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
  • 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, China

A Corrigendum on
Keeping Track of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Progress and Targets in 167 Cities Worldwide

by Wei, T., Wu, J., and Chen, S. (2021). Front. Sustain. Cities 3:696381. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2021.696381

The authors regret the typing errors in the following sections. Corrections are presented:

Results

GHG Emissions From Cities and Their Sectors

(1) On page 3, in the 1st paragraph of section “GHG Emissions From Cities and Their Sectors”, “Asia countries [such as China (Handan, Shanghai, and Suzhou) and Japan (Tokyo)] and EU countries [such as Russia (Moscow) and Turkey (Istanbul)]” should be replaced by “Asian and European countries [such as China (Handan, Shanghai, and Suzhou) and Japan (Tokyo), Russia (Moscow) and Turkey (Istanbul)].”

(2) On page 3, “109 cities in total” and “Nearly half of the 109 cities” in 3rd paragraph of the section “GHG Emissions From Cities and Their Sectors” should be replaced by “108 cities in total” and “Nearly half of the 108 cities,” respectively.

Appendix A

(3) On page 13, Table A1, the “Austria” in the column “continent” should be replaced by “Oceania” for 3 cities (Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland).

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: climate change, GHG emission reduction, energy consumption, climate targets, low-carbon cities

Citation: Wei T, Wu J and Chen S (2021) Corrigendum: Keeping Track of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Progress and Targets in 167 Cities Worldwide. Front. Sustain. Cities 3:793575. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2021.793575

Received: 12 October 2021; Accepted: 15 October 2021;
Published: 02 November 2021.

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*Correspondence: Shaoqing Chen, chenshaoqing@mail.sysu.edu.cn

†These authors have contributed equally to this work

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