Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

S Hellweg, E Benetto, MAJ Huijbregts… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution—the triple planetary crisis—increasingly
threaten the Earth system, necessitating tools such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) that can …

Scientists' warning on affluence

T Wiedmann, M Lenzen, LT Keyßer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource
use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better …

Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition

A Slameršak, G Kallis, DW O'Neill - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Achieving the Paris Agreement will require massive deployment of low-carbon
energy. However, constructing, operating, and maintaining a low-carbon energy system will …

Energy transition minerals and their intersection with land-connected peoples

JR Owen, D Kemp, AM Lechner, J Harris, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rapidly transitioning the global energy system to renewables is considered necessary to
combat climate change. Current estimates suggest that at least 30 energy transition minerals …

[HTML][HTML] The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy transition metals

É Lèbre, M Stringer, K Svobodova, JR Owen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Environmental, social and governance pressures should feature in future scenario planning
about the transition to a low carbon future. As low-carbon energy technologies advance …

Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

LJ Sonter, MC Dade, JEM Watson… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated
biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will …

Understanding environmental trade-offs and resource demand of direct air capture technologies through comparative life-cycle assessment

K Madhu, S Pauliuk, S Dhathri, F Creutzig - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Direct air capture (DAC) technologies remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from ambient air
through chemical sorbents. Their scale-up is a backstop in many climate policy scenarios …

The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

SV Hanssen, V Daioglou, ZJN Steinmann… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) can act as a negative emission
technology and is considered crucial in many climate change mitigation pathways that limit …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of lithium-ion batteries and vanadium redox flow batteries-based renewable energy storage systems

L da Silva Lima, M Quartier, A Buchmayr… - Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Renewable energy has become an important alternative to fossil energy, as it is associated
with lower greenhouse gas emissions. However, the intermittent characteristic of …

Thermochemical conversion of large-size woody biomass for carbon neutrality: Principles, applications, and issues

A Saravanakumar, P Vijayakumar, AT Hoang… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Large-size woody biomass is a valuable renewable resource to replace fossil fuels in
biorefinery processes. The preprocessing of wood chips and briquettes is challenging to …