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There is a growing number of national, subnational and even company targets for net-zero emissions of CO2 in support of the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting the global average temperature increase within 1.5 °C by 2100.

Multi-technology auctions are a popular instrument to support renewable electricity in the European Union. While they increase competition, some technologies could dominate, which might be an issue for some countries’ power system reliability.

The establishment of thresholds is integral to environmental management.

Green hydrogen is increasingly considered a vital element for the long-term decarbonization of the global energy system.

As the climate targets tighten and countries are impacted by several crises, understanding how and under which conditions carbon dioxide emissions peak and start declining is gaining importance.

After decades of ineffective state-led global climate governance that has been dominated by mostly short-term Northern political and corporate interests, we are now witnessing an increased recognition of the planetary scale of the climate crisis a

Experimentalism’s newfound prominence in relation to climate-change action invites questions—integral to this special issue—about whether it is capable of meeting the transformational challenges that societies face.

Ocean ecosystems are at the forefront of the climate and biodiversity crises, yet we lack a unified approach to assess their state and inform sustainable policies.

This study, performed under the umbrella of the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF-HTAP), responds to the need of the global and regional atmospheric modelling community of having a mosaic emission inventory of air pollutants

Salient, long-term solutions to address global environmental change hinge on management strategies that are inclusive of local voices and that recognize the array of values held by surrounding communities.

Ground-based observational characterization of atmosphere aerosols over Central Asia is very limited.

Millions of people are exposed to enhanced levels of nitrogen dioxide in urbanized areas, leading to severe health effects.

Evaluating the embodied environmental impact of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has been an important topic in addressing the sustainable development of renewable energy.

The ocean has recently taken centre stage in the global geopolitical landscape.

The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power.

The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) is a coordinating framework, started in 2010, that includes a series of standardized climate model experiments aimed at understanding the physical processes and projected impacts of solar g

30 Jahre GAIA – ein guter Zeitpunkt, um innezuhalten, zurückzublicken und einen Ausblick in die Zukunft zu wagen. Wir haben zwei Personen eingeladen, die wir zu ihren Eindrücken zur aktuellen Lage der Nachhaltigkeit und zu GAIA befragt haben.

Nepal has substantial potential to generate electricity through hydropower projects. Most of the hydropower projects in Nepal are Run-off-River (ROR) types.

Nexus governance recognises that sustainability concerns such as water, energy, and food security are interlinked and provides an alternative to fragmented governance.

Tropospheric ozone is a secondary air pollutant that is harmful to living beings and crops. Predicting ozone concentrations at specific locations is thus important to initiate protection measures, i.e.

While digitalisation is reconfiguring global value chains (GVCs), the implications for sustainable development, especially in emerging economies, have not yet been thoroughly explored.

Mobility behavior changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic have opened a window of opportunity for an accelerated transition towards sustainable mobility.

Background: Ambient air pollution poses a major risk for the development and aggravation of respiratory diseases. Evidence suggests that even in low-level air pollution environments there is a risk for an increase in adverse respiratory symptoms.

Background: Since the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2 was first identified to be circulating in the US on January 20, 2020, some of the worst outbreaks have occurred within state and federal prisons.

Climate change is strongly impacting Arctic marine ecosystems, and the Arctic coastal communities whose identities, traditions and livelihoods are closely interconnected with the marine environment.

This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it.

Probabilistic seismic hazard estimates are a key ingredient of earthquake risk mitigation strategies and are often communicated through seismic hazard maps.

Public acceptance is central to the success of a transition agenda but with the increasing uptake of renewable energy technology, achieving and sustaining the public legitimacy for accelerating the energy transition is at risk.

Low-cost particulate matter systems output airborne particle mass concentrations based on optical particle counter sensors.

Tropospheric ozone (O3) concentrations depend on a combination of hemispheric, regional, and local-scale processes. Estimates of how much O3 is produced locally vs.

The global transition to a low-carbon economy will significantly impact existing energy value chains and transform the production to consumption lifecycle, dramatically altering interactions among stakeholders.

There are considerable differences in the pace and underlying motivations of the energy transition in the different geographical contexts across Europe.

This article examines the role of “oil money” in promoting the energy transition, tracing activities across the oil industry and countries heavily dependent on oil revenues to bolster their green credentials.

This Perspective article presents a novel, participatory scenario development method for studying the energy transition.

The circular bioeconomy is a highly scrutinized concept in Finland and internationally, with a high degree of polarization regarding forest utilization rates and distrust between certain actors.

To meet the Paris Agreement targets, carbon emissions from the energy system must be eliminated by mid-century, implying vast investment and systemic change challenges ahead.

A positive perception of aquaculture products is essential to boost production by using more sustainable and eco-friendly solutions. However, consumer perception and resulting purchasing decisions remain poorly understood.

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The grid power supply in many developing countries is insufficient and irregular resulting in many commercial users relying on inefficient and air pollution intensive off-grid captive diesel generators (DGs) as a backup power supply.

Vast black carbon (BC) emissions from sub-Saharan Africa are perceived to warm the regional climate, impact rainfall patterns, and impair human respiratory health.

The focus of the paper is to use a single weibo from a user to predict whether the user account is verified, referred to as verified account prediction, on Sina Weibo.

Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies aim to use carbon dioxide (CO2), either captured from industrial point sources or from the atmosphere, instead of fossil carbon in the production of a variety of valuable goods.

Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service economy.

Economic disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine provide insights into how climate change may threaten global supply chains in a not-so-distant future.

In the course of the COVID-19 crisis, there were a number of behavioral adaptations to the extraordinary conditions that temporarily reduced individual carbon footprints.

Transformationsprozesse zu erforschen, zu verstehen und zu fördern – dieses Ziel hat sich das Institut für transformative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (IASS) in Potsdam gesetzt.

Connectivity is essential to consider in area-based marine conservation measures because it greatly impacts vital ecological processes (e.g., recycling nutrients, regulating temperature, sequestering carbon, and supporting the life cycle of specie

Energy models are used to inform and support decisions within the transition to climate neutrality.

Many developing countries have made their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) conditional on receiving climate finance, technology transfer, and capacity-building support.

Indoor air pollution (IAP) is one of the leading risk factors for various adverse health outcomes including premature deaths globally.

This article introduces ‘future memory work’ as a conceptual framework and speculative practice to unsettle the temporal hierarchies that are intrinsically tied to the anthropological project and that lead to Othering through time.

Sustainability projects are being promoted around the world with a large dose of spectacle, including those in the Arabian Peninsula where governments have invested heavily in large greening projects and events.

Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten sind beide wichtige Akteure in der internationalen Klimapolitik: Sie sind bedeutende internationale Geber im Energiesektor, sie beteiligen sich an vielfältigen bi- und multilateralen Kooperationsformaten im

India experiences some of the highest levels of ambient PM2.5 aerosol pollution in the world.

In this article we argue that sustainable development is not a socio-ecologically friendly principle.

Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D).

Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere.

Employing mineral carbonation products as a cementitious substitute could reduce the cement industry’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Wie können Betroffene einer wirtschaftlichen Veränderung zugunsten des Klimaschutzes gestärkt werden, um diesen Prozess selbst aktiv zu gestalten?

Making the profound societal transitions and transformations called for in the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (UN, 2019) and beyond is a critical and urgent challenge for humanity.

Increased tropospheric ozone (O3) and high temperatures affect human health during heat waves.

Mineral economics is a genuine multidisciplinary field dealing with economic and policy matters related to the production, distribution, and consumption of mineral commodities.

Die öffentliche Debatte um Gentechnik ist von Unsicherheiten und Unklarheiten geprägt. Im Fokus steht dabei ihr Einsatz in der Landwirtschaft.

The gap between the internationally agreed climate objectives and tangible emissions reductions looms large.

Accelerating the construction of ecological civilization in the industrial field and guiding the transformation of industry toward a green direction have become a national development strategy.

This article draws on social theory to advance conceptualization and methodology in transdisciplinary research.

Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century.

Companies across the globe have intensified the digital interconnectedness of their manufacturing processes. Much attention was devoted to how industrial employment will be affected in this new production paradigm.

Energy enables the functioning of modern society.

Transdisciplinary research processes often involve the integration of knowledge and stakeholders from various backgrounds.

Generating environmental baseline knowledge is a prerequisite for evaluating and predicting the effects of future deep seabed mining on the seafloor and in the water column.

Industry 4.0 is fundamentally changing industrial employment around the globe.

Ex-situ mineral carbonation, a CCU process, is one possible approach for the decarbonisation of emission-intensive industry with hard-to-abate process emissions like the cement industry.

To achieve the European Union's target for climate neutrality by 2050 reduced energy demand will make the transition process faster and cheaper.

In this article we review the physical and chemical properties of methane (CH4) relevant to impacts on climate, ecosystems, and air pollution, and examine the extent to which this is reflected in climate and air pollution governance.

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit ist in der deutschen Soziologie nur selten als eigenständiger Topos der Forschung und der Theoriebildung verankert.

Die Beteiligungsrechte von Kindern und Jugendlichen wurden in den letzten Jahren ausgeweitet, sowohl bezogen auf ihr unmittelbares Lebensumfeld (Wolff 2021) als auch im politischen Raum. Zugleich gibt es ein Umsetzungsdefizit, das u.a.

Achieving transparency of the social and environmental impacts of industrial production poses significant obstacles for companies operating in complex global supply chains.

Translating the agricultural eco(logical)-intensification model to European aquaculture hosts the potential for sustainably providing local food for local communities.

The digitalization of agricultural production and the use of digital data are fundamentally transforming processes, products, and services of the agro-food systems.

Climatology and trends in different types of aerosols with focus on absorbing aerosols over Kanpur located in Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) in South Asia and Beijing in North China Plain (NCP) in East Asia are investigated.

With the proclaimed advent of Industry 4.0 in supply chains, digitalisation is expected to restructure the ways in which buying firms and suppliers in supply chains collaborate, including on sustainability issues.

New particle formation (NPF) induces a sharp increase in ultrafine particle number concentrations and potentially acts as an important source of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).

This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field.

Can ambitious climate policies in the European Green Deal succeed when faced with rising societal divisions between Europeans?

This paper outlines the development and operation of Yeti, a bottom-up traffic emission inventory framework written in the Python 3 scripting language.

The ocean plays a key role in sustaining life on our planet and is inextricably linked to biodiversity, climate, human well-being, and health.

The Kathmandu Valley in Nepal suffers from unhealthy air quality, with mean pre-monsoon submicron particulate matter concentration (PM1) of 40 μg m−3 and daily peaks over 75 μg m−3.

Science diplomacy has been instrumental in facilitating cooperation in the Arctic region, yet through the projection of vast hydrocarbon potential in the region, it has also served to undermine the major transformation necessary in Arctic decision

Firms from various industries are investing in carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies as part of their circular economy efforts.