Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service
economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local …

Background Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with
their high per-capita CO 2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations …

Chapter 3 assesses the emissions pathways literature in order to identify their key
characteristics (both in commonalities and differences) and to understand how societal …

5° C scenarios reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rely on
combinations of controversial negative emissions and unprecedented technological change …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during the last decade (2010–
2019) were higher than at any previous time in human history (high confidence). Since …

This study examined how efforts to expand clean energy access and develop renewables,
increase in biocapacity, and environmental policies impacted carbon emissions in 24 OECD …

Established climate mitigation scenarios assume continued economic growth in all
countries, and reconcile this with the Paris targets by betting on speculative technological …

The global energy crisis, which began in 2021 due to the extraordinary economic recovery
after the pandemic and intensified after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has …