The global renewable energy landscape is changing rapidly. Green energies reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, diversify the energy supply, and lower dependence on volatile …

Executive summary Deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit future
global temperature increases to 1· 5 C above pre-industrial levels, but current progress is …

Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction
potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we …

It is increasingly clear that averting ecological breakdown will require drastic changes to
contemporary human society and the global economy embedded within it. On the other …

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

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 …

Buildings use 75% of US electricity; therefore, improving the efficiency and flexibility of
building operations could provide significant value to the rapidly changing electricity system …

Long-term mitigation scenarios developed by integrated assessment models underpin major
aspects of recent IPCC reports and have been critical to identify the system transformations …

Buildings account for 36% of global final energy demand and are key to mitigating climate
change. Assessing the evolution of the global building stock and its energy demand is …

Wind and solar power generation have been rapidly increasing on a global scale; this
increase is limited by the capacities of the existing grids at maintaining balance between …