How do natural resources, urbanization, and institutional quality meet with ecological footprints in the presence of income inequality and human capital in the next …

Y Sun, W Tian, U Mehmood, X Zhang, S Tariq - Resources Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid pace of financial and societal progress has generated a multitude of
environmental challenges. In light of this perspective, this work endeavours to analyze the …

Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12

M Lenzen, A Geschke, J West, J Fry, A Malik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable development depends on decoupling economic growth from resource use. The
material footprint indicator accounts for environmental pressure related to a country's final …

Efficient use of cement and concrete to reduce reliance on supply-side technologies for net-zero emissions

T Watari, Z Cao, S Hata, K Nansai - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Decarbonization strategies for the cement and concrete sector have relied heavily on supply-
side technologies, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), masking opportunities for …

Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States

P Berrill, EJH Wilson, JL Reyna, AD Fontanini… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Residential GHG emissions in the United States are driven in part by a housing stock where
onsite fossil combustion is common, home sizes are large by international standards, energy …

Mapping global carbon footprint in China

Y Yang, S Qu, B Cai, S Liang, Z Wang, J Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Developing localized climate mitigation strategies needs an understanding of how global
consumption drives local carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions with a fine spatial resolution …

Quantifying the carbon footprint reduction potential of lifestyle choices in Japan

Y Shigetomi, K Kanemoto, Y Yamamoto… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerous studies have investigated the hotspots for reducing carbon emissions associated
with household consumption, including reducing household carbon footprints (CFs) and …

Allocating capital-associated CO2 emissions along the full lifespan of capital investments helps diffuse emission responsibility

Q Ye, MS Krol, Y Shan, JF Schyns, M Berger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Capital assets such as machinery and infrastructure contribute substantially to CO2
emissions over their lifetime. Unique features of capital assets such as their long durability …

Implications of the distribution of German household environmental footprints across income groups for integrating environmental and social policy design

G Hardadi, A Buchholz, S Pauliuk - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of German household environmental footprints (EnvFs) across income
groups is analyzed by using EXIOBASE v3. 6 and the consumer expenditure survey of 2013 …

From geospatial to temporal separation: a review on carbon accounting endogenizing fixed capital

D Xu, Y Zhang, Z Yang - Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2023 - spj.science.org
A scientific and systematic approach that provides accurate carbon accounting is a
fundamental prerequisite for responding to the climate crisis. The carbon accounting system …

Copper recycling flow model for the united states economy: Impact of scrap quality on potential energy benefit

T Wang, P Berrill, JB Zimmerman… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Is recycling a means for meeting the increasing copper demand in the face of declining ore
grades? To date, research to address this question has generally focused on the quantity …