Advances in Earth Science ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 577-591. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2025.041

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Global Urbanization Trends and Their Impact on Climate Change

Chunyang HE1,2,3(), Xiaoping LIU4, Wei WANG5,6, Qingxu HUANG1,7(), Zhifeng LIU1,7, Weilin LIAO4, Guoliang ZHU1,7   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Disaster Risk Reduction, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    3. Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    4. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
    5. Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    6. Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    7. College of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Received:2025-01-01 Revised:2025-04-16 Online:2025-06-10 Published:2025-08-04
  • Contact: Qingxu HUANG
  • Supported by:
    the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA0607203); The Research Team Program from the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University(2024-KYTD-09)

Chunyang HE, Xiaoping LIU, Wei WANG, Qingxu HUANG, Zhifeng LIU, Weilin LIAO, Guoliang ZHU. Global Urbanization Trends and Their Impact on Climate Change[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2025, 40(6): 577-591.

Projecting future global urbanization pathways and their impacts on climate change is essential for effectively addressing climate change and promoting sustainable regional and global development. To this end, the National Key Research and Development Program’s project, “Global Urbanization Trend and its Impact on Climate Change” simulates the spatial and temporal patterns of global urbanization patterns from 2020 to 2070 under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) framework and quantitatively evaluates the impact of urbanization on regional and global climate change. This provides crucial datasets for revealing the impact of urbanization on regional and global climate change at multiple scales. The findings are of great significance to the realization of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. They also provide a scientific foundation for the construction of green and healthy cities, as well as a scientific reference for optimizing urban morphology and mitigating the urban heat island effect.

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