Scaling up change: a critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action

SM Constantino, G Sparkman… - … science in the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Fluoropolymer ferroelectrics: Multifunctional platform for polar-structured energy conversion

X Qian, X Chen, L Zhu, QM Zhang - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ferroelectric materials are currently some of the most widely applied material systems and
are constantly generating improved functions with higher efficiencies. Advancements in poly …

A global assessment: can renewable energy replace fossil fuels by 2050?

JL Holechek, HME Geli, MN Sawalhah, R Valdez - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Our study evaluated the effectiveness of using eight pathways in combination for a complete
to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050. These pathways included …

High-entropy polymer produces a giant electrocaloric effect at low fields

X Qian, D Han, L Zheng, J Chen, M Tyagi, Q Li, F Du… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
More than a decade of research on the electrocaloric (EC) effect has resulted in EC
materials and EC multilayer chips that satisfy a minimum EC temperature change of 5 K …

Regenerative agriculture: an agronomic perspective

KE Giller, R Hijbeek, JA Andersson… - Outlook on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction.
Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing European Union circular economy policies: words versus actions

MC Friant, WJV Vermeulen, R Salomone - Sustainable Production and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the publication of the European Union's Circular Economy Action Plan in 2015, this
new sustainability paradigm has become a guiding force behind the environmental and …

[HTML][HTML] A typology of circular economy discourses: Navigating the diverse visions of a contested paradigm

MC Friant, WJV Vermeulen, R Salomone - Resources, conservation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The circular economy (CE) has recently become a popular discourse especially in
government and corporate sectors. Given the socio-ecological challenges of the …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, AA Hatab… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2023 - library.wur.nl
Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

Creating an eco‐friendly building coating with smart subambient radiative cooling

X Xue, M Qiu, Y Li, QM Zhang, S Li, Z Yang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Subambient daytime radiative cooling (SDRC) provides a promising electricity‐and cryogen‐
free pathway for global energy‐efficiency. However, current SDRC systems require stringent …

Tackling climate change with machine learning

D Rolnick, PL Donti, LH Kaack, K Kochanski… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine
learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a …