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 …

[HTML][HTML] The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations

C Freitag, M Berners-Lee, K Widdicks, B Knowles… - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
In this paper, we critique ICT's current and projected climate impacts. Peer-reviewed studies
estimate ICT's current share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at 1.8%–2.8% of …

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

H Haberl, D Wiedenhofer, D Virág, G Kalt… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of'decoupling'; that is,
they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and …

[HTML][HTML] Policies for energy conservation and sufficiency: Review of existing policies and recommendations for new and effective policies in OECD countries

P Bertoldi - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a strong consent among scholars and policy makers that limiting current global
energy demand and gradually reducing it towards a sustainable level of consumption is a …

Critical assessment of large-scale rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the global urban environment

V Kapsalis, C Maduta, N Skandalos, M Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
In support of the clean energy transition, rooftop photovoltaics (RTPV) deployment has been
globally advocated, enabling citizens as energy prosumers within their localised building …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking

A Hook, BK Sovacool, S Sorrell - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICTs) increasingly enable employees
to work from home and other locations ('teleworking'). This study explores the extent to which …

Tourism, technology and ICT: a critical review of affordances and concessions

S Gössling - Journal of sustainable tourism, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The digital information age has changed global tourism in profound ways. Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) are pervasive, and they have become inextricably …

[HTML][HTML] Consumer behavior and climate change: Consumers need considerable assistance

J Thøgersen - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•The relationship between consumer behavior and climate change is
complex.•Most consumers cannot identify the behavior changes that are worth …

A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets

S Hu, X Zhou, D Yan, F Guo, T Hong, Y Jiang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
Among the sufficiency, efficiency, and renewable frameworks for reducing energy use and
energy-related carbon emissions, Building Energy Sufficiency (BES) is gaining attention …

[HTML][HTML] Just transitions for industrial decarbonisation: A framework for innovation, participation, and justice

P Upham, B Sovacool, B Ghosh - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we propose a framework for considering the justice issues of industrial cluster
decarbonisation, a pressing challenge confronting many industrialised economies. Industrial …