• Drivers of fluctuating embodied carbon emissions in international services trade 

      Huo, Jingwen; Meng, Jing; Zhang, Zengkai; Gao, Yuning; Zheng, Heran; Coffman, D'Maris; Xue, Jinjun; Li, Yuan; Guan, Dabo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Service industries are generally considered “green” because of their marginal direct emissions; however, they account for 65% of the world gross domestic product and over 20% of total global trade in 2019. Here, we quantify ...
    • The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain 

      Meng, Jing; Hu, Xiangping; Chen, Peipei; Coffman, D'Maris; Han, Mengyao (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Reducing fossil fuel consumption is a top priority option for climate change mitigation, which requires collaborations of partners along the supply chain, such as energy suppliers, energy consumers and final consumers of ...
    • Using crowdsourced data to estimate the carbon footprints of global cities 

      Sun, Xinlu; Mi, Zhifu; Sudmant, Andrew; Coffman, D'Maris; Yang, Pu; Wood, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Cities are at the forefront of the battle against climate change. However, intercity comparisons and responsibility allocations among cities are hindered because cost- and time-effective methods to calculate the carbon ...