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Battery electric vehicles show the lowest carbon footprints among passenger cars across 1.5–3.0 °C energy decarbonisation pathways

Battery electric vehicles have the lowest carbon footprints compared to hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and fuel-cell cars, mainly due to the rapid decarbonization of electricity, according to an analysis that uses time-adjusted life cycle assessment across 5000 cases.

Joris Šimaitis
Rick Lupton
Stephen Allen
ResearchOpen Access18 Jun 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-12
How to make climate-neutral aviation fly

Europe’s aviation must reduce more than just flight CO₂ emissions to achieve net-zero. Synthetic fuels and carbon capture and storage could help but decreasing air traffic is crucial due to non-CO₂ climate impacts and resource constraints.

Romain Sacchi
Viola Becattini
Marco Mazzotti
ResearchOpen Access06 Jul 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-17
Trade-off between critical metal requirement and transportation decarbonization in automotive electrification

This study analyzes the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirements in 48 countries. Our results show that transportation electrification may result in an upsurge in critical metal demand, and decarbonizing fuel production is critical for adequately mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from road transportation.

Chunbo Zhang
Xiang Zhao
Fengqi You
ResearchOpen Access11 Apr 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-16
Revealing the interplay between decarbonisation, circularity, and cost-effectiveness in building energy renovation

This study shows that while deep building renovation could reduce carbon emissions, it increases material use and costs. Circular strategies help reduce primary material demand, but incentives are needed to make renovation economically viable.

Chunbo Zhang
Mingming Hu
Arnold Tukker
ResearchOpen Access04 Aug 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-16
Global greenhouse gas emissions mitigation potential of existing and planned hydrogen projects

Hydrogen could be crucial for decarbonizing various sectors, but its production is resource intensive, necessitating strategic prioritization of applications. Here the authors analyse approximately 2,000 planned and operational hydrogen projects, quantifying the associated greenhouse gas emissions and identifying climate-effective applications.

Tom Terlouw
Christian Moretti
Christian Bauer
ResearchOpen Access06 Nov 2025
Nature Energy

Volume: 10, P: 1503-1515
Addendum: Trade-off between critical metal requirement and transportation decarbonization in automotive electrification

Chunbo Zhang
Xiang Zhao
Fengqi You
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access13 Mar 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-2
The sponge effect and carbon emission mitigation potentials of the global cement cycle

Cement plays a dual role in the carbon cycle like a sponge. Here, the authors employ a dynamic model to quantify such sponge effect and concluded that deep decarbonization of the global cement cycle will require radical technology advancements and widespread deployment of material efficiency measures.

Zhi Cao
Rupert J. Myers
Gang Liu
ResearchOpen Access29 Jul 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-9
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation

E-fuels—hydrocarbon fuels synthesized from green hydrogen—can replace fossil fuels. This Perspective highlights the opportunities and risks of e-fuels, and concludes that hydrogen and e-fuels should be prioritized for sectors inaccessible to direct electrification.

Falko Ueckerdt
Christian Bauer
Gunnar Luderer
Reviews06 May 2021
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 11, P: 384-393
The global environmental footprint of Switzerland’s net-zero energy system uncovers impacts abroad

Even if domestic greenhouse gas emissions were reduced to net zero in Switzerland by 2050, 2 to 5 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year could persist abroad due to imports and energy-related infrastructure needs, according to a life cycle assessment of model simulations.

Alvaro Jose Hahn Menacho
Romain Sacchi
Peter Burgherr
ResearchOpen Access05 Apr 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-14
Potential pitfalls in the use of real-world data for studying long COVID

Harrison G. Zhang
Jacqueline P. Honerlaw
Gabriel A. Brat
Correspondence13 Apr 2023
Nature Medicine

Volume: 29, P: 1040-1043
International comparisons of laboratory values from the 4CE collaborative to predict COVID-19 mortality

Griffin M. Weber
Chuan Hong
Gabriel A. Brat
ResearchOpen Access13 Jun 2022
npj Digital Medicine

Volume: 5, P: 1-8

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