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 …

The pressing concern of escalating water scarcity has spurred the creation of advanced
technologies, such as interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG), to tackle the challenge …

Abstract Meeting the United Nations'(UN's) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has
become a worldwide mission. How these SDGs interrelate, however, is not well known. We …

Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied
from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by …

Water scarcity is dynamic and complex, emerging from the combined influences of climate
change, basin-level water resources, and managed systems' adaptive capacities. Beyond …

Freshwater is a vital resource for both ecosystem health and human survival, and it is the
natural resource that is the most extracted at the global level. Excessive freshwater …

Disappointingly, tremendous increase in water pollution due to different contaminants
including inorganic contaminants, novel human-induced contaminants as well as emerging …

Chapter 3 takes a long-term perspective on climate change mitigation pathways. Its focus is
on the implications of long-term targets for the required short-and medium-term system …

Hydrogen will play a key role in decarbonizing economies. Here, we quantify the costs and
environmental impacts of possible large-scale hydrogen economies, using four prospective …

Inadequate water quality can mean that water is unsuitable for a variety of human uses, thus
exacerbating freshwater scarcity. Previous large-scale water scarcity assessments mostly …