Scientific publications and reports

  • Berrill, Peter; Wilson, Eric J.H.; Janet L., Reyna; Antyony D., Fontanini; Hertwich, Edgar G. 2022. Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States. Nature Climate Change Vol 12 (8), 712-718. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01429-y
  • Bodirsky, B. L., Chen, D.-M.-C., Weindl, I., Sörgel, B., Beier, F., Molina Bacca, E. J., Gaupp, F., Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H. (2022): Integrating degrowth and efficiency perspectives enables an emission-neutral food system by 2100. - Nature Food, 3, 5, 341-348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00500-3
  • Bodirsky, B.L., Dietrich, J.P., Martinelli, E., Stenstad, A., Pradhan, P., Gabrysch, S., Mishra, A., Weindl, I., Le Mouël, C., Rolinski, S. (2020) The ongoing nutrition transition thwarts long-term targets for food security, public health and environmental protection. Scientific reports 10, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75213-3
  • Chen DMC, Bodirsky BL, Krueger T, Mishra A, Popp A (2020) The world’s growing municipal solid waste: Trends and impacts. Environ Res Lett 15(7):074021. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8659
  • Doelman, J. C., Beier, F. D., Stehfest, E., Bodirsky, B. L., Beusen, A. H. W., Humpenöder, F., Mishra, A., Popp, A., van Vuuren, D. P., de Vos, L., Weindl, I., van Zeist, W.-J., Kram, T. (2022): Quantifying synergies and trade-offs in the global water-land-food-climate nexus using a multi-model scenario approach. Environ. Res. Lett. 17 045004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5766
  • Fishman, T., N. Heeren, S. Pauliuk, P. Berrill, Q. Tu, P. Wolfram, E. Hertwich (2020), Developing scenarios of resource efficiency and climate change: from conception to operation. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/tqsc3
  • Hernandez, A.M. (2022) The Phases Model of the Transformation to Sustainability (T2S): Structuring through the Negotiation Perspective, Sustainability (14/9), https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095024
  • Hernandez, Ariel M.( 2021) SDG-Aligned Futures and the Governance of the Transformation to Sustainability. Reconsidering Governance Perspectives on the Futures We Aspire to. DIE discussion paper. https://doi.org/10.23661/dp30.2021 [Summary]
  • Humpenöder, F., Popp, A., Schleussner, C.-F., Orlov, A., Windisch, M. G., Menke, I., Pongratz, J., Havermann, F., Thiery, W., Luo, F., von Jeetze, P. J., Dietrich, J. P., Lotze-Campen, H., Weindl, I., Lejeune, Q. (2022): Overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement. - Nature Communications, 13, 7453. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35114-7
  • Iacobuta, G.I. (2021) Enablers of ambitious climate action: Challenges and opportunities to combine climate change and sustainable development, Wageningen, Netherlands, Wageningen University.
  • Iacobuta, G.I., Höhne, N. & van Soest, H. (2021) Transitioning to low-carbon economies under the 2030 Agenda: minimizing trade-offs and enhancing co-benefits of climate action on the SDGs, Sustainability, 13(9), 10774.
  • Kamei, M.; Mastrucci, A.; van Ruijven, B.J. 2021. A Future Outlook of Narratives for the Built Environment in Japan. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1653. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041653
  • Kikstra, Jarmo S., A. Mastrucci, J. Min, K. Riahi, N.D. Rao. 2021. Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world. Environmental Research Letters 16 095006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1c27
  • Krych, Kamila; Heeren, Niko; Hertwich, Edgar G. 2021. Factors influencing the life-cycle GHG emissions of Brazilian office buildings. Buildings & Cities 2021 Vol 2 (1), 856-873
  • Mastrucci, Alessio, Edward Byers, Shonali Pachauri, Narasimha Rao, Bas van Ruijven. 2022. Cooling access and energy requirements for adaptation to heat stress in megacities. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 27, 59 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-022-10032-7
  • Nakicenovic, Nebojsa et al. (2020) Innovations for sustainability: pathways to an efficient and sufficient post-pandemic future 3rd report prepared by The World in 2050 Initiative (TWI2050), Laxenburg: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
  • Pelz, S., Pachauri, S., & Rao, N. (2021). Application of an alternative framework for measuring progress towards SDG 7.1. Environmental Research Letters 16 (8) e084048. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac16a1
  • Rousseau, Lola Sylvie Annie; Kloostra, Bradley; AzariJafari, Hessam; Saxe, Shoshanna; Gregory, Jeremy; Hertwich, Edgar G. 2022. Material Stock and Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Global and Urban Road Pavement. Environmental Science and Technology 2022 Vol 56 (24), 18050-18059
  • SHAPE Report on the first phase of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, June - October 2021. Potsdam, Stockholm. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7432337 . download
  • SHAPE Report on the second phase of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, 4 - 8 April 2022. Potsdam, Stockholm. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7432489 . download
  • Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., et al. (2021a): Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty. Nature Communications 12, 2342 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22315-9
  • Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., Weindl, I. et al. (2021b). A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda. Nature Climate Change 11, 656–664 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01098-3
  • van Vuuren, Detlef P. et al. (incl. E. Kriegler, S. Cornell, A. Popp, B. Soergel), Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050, One Earth (2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.01.003.
  • von Jeetze, P. J., Weindl, I., Johnson, J. A., Borrelli, P., Panagos, P., Molina Bacca, E. J., Karstens, K., Humpenöder, F., Dietrich, J. P., Minoli, S., Müller, C., Lotze-Campen, H., Popp, A. (2023): Landscape-scale repercussions of global action for climate and biodiversity protection. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38043-1
  • Wang, Tong; Berrill, Peter; Zimmerman, Julie Beth; Rao, Narasimha D.; Min, Jihoon; Hertwich, Edgar G. 2022. Improved Copper Circularity as a Result of Increased Material Efficiency in the U.S. Housing Stock. Environmental Science and Technology 2022 Vol 56 (7), 4565-4577. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06474
  • Zheng, H., R. Wood, D. Moran, K. Feng, M. Jiang, A. Tisserant, E. Hertwich (2023): Rising carbon inequality and its driving factors. Global Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102704
  • Zheng, Heran; Long, Yin; Wood, Richard; Moran, Daniel; Zhang, Zhengkai; Meng, Jing; Feng, Kuishuang; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Guan, Dabo. 2022. Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation. Nature Climate Change 2022 Vol 12, 241-248. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01302-y