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Wenjia Cai

Professor

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Discipline:Ecology

Education Background

Ph.D., School of Environment, Tsinghua University（2010）

BA, Renmin University of China（2005）

Work Experience

Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University

Tenure-track Associate Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University

Post-doctoral associate, School of Environment, Tsinghua University (2012)

Research Focus

The economic, environmental and social impacts assessment of carbon mitigation
The health impacts of climate actions
Energy-environment-economy system modeling and analysis
Energy and climate policy

Selected Publications

1. Han Zhao, Shangchen Zhang, Mingyu Lei, …, Wenjia Cai*. Inequalities in health-care carbon footprints and implications for demand-side interventions: a global assessment across population groups. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2026,101456.

2. Shangchen Zhang, Ruyi Li, Rui Wang, … Xin Dong*, Wenjia Cai*, Peng Gong. Hospital-level urban flood risk assessment and targeted strategies to increase hospital climate resilience in China: a modelling study. The Lancet Public Health, 2026. Accepted.

3. Mengzhen Zhao, Yuyou Chen, Jing Shang, … Wenjia Cai*, Chi Zhang*. Potential of shifting work hours for reducing heat-related loss and regional disparities in China: a modelling analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025, 9: 101241. (Selected as Research Highlight by Nature Climate Change)

4. Jianxiang Shen, Shihui Zhang, Mengzhen Zhao, … Wenjia Cai*, Can Wang. Improving cost–benefit analyses for health-considered climate mitigation policymaking. Nature Climate Change, 2025, 15, 709-718.

5. Rui Wang, Wenjia Cai*, Ryna Yiyun Cui, et al. Reducing transition costs towards carbon neutrality of China’s coal power plants. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 241. (Highly Cited Paper)

6. Shihui Zhang, Wenjia Cai*, Xinzhu Zheng*, … Can Wang, Kebin He. Global readiness for carbon neutrality: From targets to action. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2025, 25, 100546. (Highly Cited Paper)

7. Wenjia Cai#, Chi Zhang#, Shihui Zhang# et al. The 2024 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: launching a new low-carbon, healthy journey. The Lancet Public Health, 2024, 9(12), e1070-1088. (Highly Cited Paper) (Hot Cited Paper)

8. Yida Sun, Shupeng Zhu, Daoping Wang, … Wenjia Cai et al., Global supply chains amplify economic costs of future extreme heat risk. Nature, 2024, 627, 797-804. (Highly Cited Paper) (Hot Cited Paper)

9. Shangchen Zhang, Mengzhen Zhao, Zhao Liu, …, Wenjia Cai*. City-level population projection for China under different pathways from 2010 to 2100. Scientific Data, 2023, 10, 809. (High-impact data papers in China in 2025)

10. Shihui Zhang#, Chi Zhang#, Wenjia Cai#, et al. The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future, The Lancet Public Health, 2023, 8(12), e978-e995. (Highly Cited Paper)

11. Zhang Shihui, An Kangxin, Cai Wenjia*, et al., Incorporating health co-benefits into technology pathways to achieve China's 2060 carbon neutrality goal: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2021, 5(11): E808-E817.

12. Wenjia Cai#, Chi Zhang#, Hoi Ping Suen#, et al., The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change. The Lancet Public Health, 2021, 6(1), e64-e81. (Highly Cited Paper)

13. Yidan Chen, Fang Guo, Jiachen Wang, Wenjia Cai*, Can Wang, Kaicun Wang. Provincial and gridded population projection for China under shared socioeconomic pathways from 2010 to 2100. Scientific Data, 2020, 7, 83. (Highly Cited Paper) (High-impact data papers in China in 2024 and 2025)

14. Wenjia Cai*, Jinxuan Hui, Can Wang*, Yixuan Zheng, Xin Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Peng Gong. The Lancet Countdown on PM2.5 pollution-related health impacts of China's projected carbon dioxide mitigation in the electric power generation sector under the Paris Agreement: a modeling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2018, 2, e151-161.

完整论文列表可见：

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-512X

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wenjia_Cai

Awards&Honors

2025年 Frontiers Planet Prize集体奖获得者

2025年全球前2%顶尖科学家（斯坦福和爱思唯尔共同发布，其中终身科学影响力排行榜（2025）、年度科学影响力排行榜（2021、2022、2023、2025））

2018年清华大学“学术新人奖”（全校35岁以下教师最高学术荣誉,每年仅10人获奖）

Projects

2026-2029 京津冀环境综合治理国家科技重大专项：京津冀温室气体排放高分辨率核算、预测与减排路径智能调控技术课题负责人

2023-2028 国家重点研发计划：重点行业气候变化适应关键技术体系、决策支持系统和恢复力评估课题负责人

2025-2027 云南省：气候变化与经济发展双重压力下抚仙湖流域水安全风险评估项目负责人

2023-2024 中国气象局：中国气候健康风险区划及应对措施研究项目负责人

2022-2025 国家自然科学基金：面向碳中和的国际气候合作研究课题负责人

2021-2023 国家重点研发计划：冬奥赛事碳排放核算与衍生效应动态评估课题负责人

2022-2022 国家疾控局：气候变化背景下我国高温健康风险评估及应对进展调研项目负责人

2021-2021 世界卫生组织：中国气候变化与人群健康进展研究项目负责人

2018-2021 国家自然科学基金：考虑健康协同效益的中国碳减排目标区域分解研究项目负责人

2017-2022 国家重点研发专项：人文要素变化及与自然要素的空间叠加效应课题负责人

2017-2018 国际合作项目：不同发展路径和碳减排目标下中国重点工业行业发展、碳排放及其水资源影响研究项目负责人

2014-2016 国家自然科学基金：基于动态CGE模型的国际行业减排方案对我国就业影响分析项目负责人

2012-2016 中国CDM基金项目：IPCC减缓技术战略对中国可持续发展影响评估课题负责人

Book Chapters and Working papers

[4] Zhao H, Baklanov A, Barau A, Bonou F, Cheval S, Creutzig F, Hong C, Indasi V, Ito R, Lei M, Li R, Liao W, Liu Y, McLean CT, Mbuya E, Nogherotto R, Patel S, Pathak M, Pflieger G, Pistolesi G, Roberts D, Sharpe S, Sudmant A, Sun J, Zhu Y, Cai W. Global literature evidence linking development-farmed urban actions with climate change mitigation and adaptation impacts. Working paper (2026). https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/8cf036eef06b4f44bb1b/

[3] Can Wang,Wenjia Cai,Climate Change Economics[Teaching material],Tsinghua University Press

[2]Can Wang, Wenjia Cai. “Sectoral Approach and the Negotiation Progress”, in: Annual Report on Climate Change Actions (2009). Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2009：165-181.

[1] Wang Can, Cai Wenjia, Li Shuyi, Zhang Weishi, Gao Liangying, Sectoral Approach and International Technology Development and Transfer. Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2009.