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  • Almost one-quarter of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere is emitted in the production of internationally traded goods and services. Trade therefore represents an unrivalled, and unused, tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

    • Glen P. Peters and Edgar G. Hertwich
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 1, P: 40-41

  • Residential sector decarbonization is an essential part of mitigation, especially in the United States where per capita energy use is high by global standards. This article shows the emission reduction potential from individual and combined strategies applied to existing and new homes and to electricity supply.

    • Peter Berrill
    • Eric J. H. Wilson
    • Edgar G. Hertwich
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 12, P: 712-718

  • All energy generation technologies emit greenhouse gases during their life cycle as a result of construction and operation. Pehl et al. integrate life-cycle assessment and energy modelling to analyse the emissions contributions of different technologies across their lifespan in future low-carbon power systems.

    • Michaja Pehl
    • Anders Arvesen
    • Gunnar Luderer
    Research
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 2, P: 939-945

  • International trade is the underlying cause of 30% of threatened animal species extinctions, according to a modelling analysis of the impact of global supply chains and consumption patterns on biodiversity. See Letter p.109

    • Edgar Hertwich
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 486, P: 36-37

  • Plastics, chemical production, and fertilizers commonly rely on fossil fuels. Here the authors examine these uses in China and find that in 2017, 5%, 15%, and 7% of China’s total coal, crude oil, and natural gas were used as feedstocks in the chemical industry.

    • Meng Jiang
    • Yuheng Cao
    • Bing Zhu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-12

  • Many of the materials that our everyday lives rely on come with a hidden freshwater cost during production. The embodied water in materials has surged in material production with the potential to exacerbate regional water scarcity.

    • Yao Wang
    • Fengmei Ma
    • Stephan Lutter
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 8, P: 1554-1566

  • Material production accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. Here, the authors show that resource efficiency and circular-economy strategies can allow for cumulative emission reductions of 20–52 Gt CO2-eq from residential buildings and 13–26 Gt CO2e-eq from cars by 2050.

    • Stefan Pauliuk
    • Niko Heeren
    • Edgar G. Hertwich
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-10

  • A large proportion of the population in developed countries will be of senior age in the years ahead. The carbon emissions of this group comprised an increasing share of the total emissions in developed countries in the past decade, with high expenditure on carbon-intensive products, and this trend will continue in the future.

    • Heran Zheng
    • Yin Long
    • Dabo Guan
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 12, P: 241-248

  • There lacks a consistent and holistic evaluation of co-benefits of different mitigation pathways in studies on Integrated Assessment Models. Here the authors quantify environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of a portfolio of alternative power sector decarbonisation pathways and show that the scale of co-benefits as well as profiles of adverse side-effects depend strongly on technology choice.

    • Gunnar Luderer
    • Michaja Pehl
    • Edgar G. Hertwich
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-13

  • Research on climate change mitigation tends to focus on supply-side technology solutions. A better understanding of demand-side solutions is missing. We propose a transdisciplinary approach to identify demand-side climate solutions, investigate their mitigation potential, detail policy measures and assess their implications for well-being.

    • Felix Creutzig
    • Joyashree Roy
    • Elke U. Weber
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 8, P: 260-263

  • The material-intensive transition to low-carbon energy will impose environmental and social burdens on local and regional communities. Demand-side strategies can help to achieve higher well-being at lower levels of energy or material use, and an interdisciplinary approach in future research is essential.

    • Felix Creutzig
    • Sofia G. Simoes
    • Charlie Wilson
    Reviews
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 14, P: 561-572

  • An in-depth review of five major integrated assessment models from an industrial ecology perspective reveals differences between the fields regarding the modelling of linkages in the industrial system.

    • Stefan Pauliuk
    • Anders Arvesen
    • Edgar G. Hertwich
    Reviews
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 7, P: 13-20