Habit-locked-in carbon-air-pollutant emissions dominate China's household footprints.

Zhihui Zhang, Huihui Long, Dan Tong, Xuemei Wang, Shaoqing Chen

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Zhihui ZhangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.

Huihui LongDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom.

Dan TongMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.

Xuemei WangGuangdong-Hongkong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality, College of Environment and Climate, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511486, China.

Shaoqing ChenGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.

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Abstract

Household consumption is a major driver of global carbon and air-pollutant emissions. As living standards rise, everyday routines become entrenched and reduce the responsiveness of demand to mitigation policies. Consumption-based accounting has traced these burdens through supply chains, yet the scale of emissions that remain locked in by behavioral inertia has stayed poorly quantified. Here we show that locked-in emissions of carbon and air pollutants account for nearly 84% of total household-driven emissions of CO

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Consumption inertiaHabit-locked emissionsHousehold carbon footprintSynergistic mitigation

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PMID42729863

DOI10.1016/j.ese.2026.100757

PMCPMC13564124

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