The transport sector is a crucial yet challenging area to decarbonize, given its heavy
reliance on fossil fuel usage, carbon-intensive infrastructure and car-centric lifestyles. It …

Water resources are a critical component of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus, making it
vital to examine the pressures on WEF systems from a water resource perspective. However …

In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many
fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great …

To neutralize anthropogenic climate impacts, excess carbon dioxide (CO 2)–about 400 Gt of
carbon–needs to be removed from the atmosphere. After the energy transition is …

Material stocks of infrastructure, buildings, and machinery are the biophysical basis of
production and consumption. They are a crucial lever for resource efficiency and a …

Photovoltaic roofs (PVR) are commonly used to reduce urban carbon emissions for
improving urban sustainability. However, their potential impact on the urban thermal …

The widely heralded decarbonization of economies is a significant intervention in countries'
societal metabolism, which eliminates the use of fossil fuels but also requires renewing …

This study created an open-source dynamic material flow analysis (dMFA) model for wind
turbines. A case study was conducted using Canadian historical wind turbine construction …

Distributed energy resources (DERs) would play a crucial role in the transition towards
decentralized and decarbonized energy systems. However, due to the limited availability of …

The decarbonization of power and energy systems faces a bottleneck: The enormous
number of user-side resources cannot be properly managed and operated by centralized …