• Carbon Leakage, Consumption, and Trade 

      Grubb, Michael; Jordan, Nino David; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Neuhoff, Karsten; Das, Kasturi; Bandyopadhyay, Kaushik Ranjan; Van Asselt, Harro; Sato, Misato; Wang, Ranran; Pizer, William A.; Oh, Hyungna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We review the state of knowledge concerning international CO2 emission transfers associated particularly with trade in energy-intensive goods and concerns about carbon leakage arising from climate policies. The historical ...
    • Consideration of culture is vital if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 

      Zheng, Xinzhu; Wang, Ranran; Hoekstra, Arjen Y.; Krol, Maarten S.; Zhang, Yaxin; Guo, Kaidi; Sanwal, Mukul; Sun, Zhen; Zhu, Junming; Zhang, Junjie; Lounsbury, Amanda; Pan, Xunzhang; Guan, Dabo; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Wang, Can (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Integrating the social and natural sciences to effectively tackle the intertwined challenges represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been advocated for years. However, the practice is challenging, ...
    • High sensitivity of metal footprint to national GDP in part explained by capital formation 

      Zheng, Xinzhu; Wang, Ranran; Wood, Richard; Wang, Can; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Global metal ore extraction tripled between 1970 and 2010 as metals are widely used in new infrastructure and advanced technology. Meanwhile, the energy and environmental costs of metal mining increase as lower ore grades ...
    • The legacy environmental footprints of manufactured capital 

      Wang, Ranran; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Fishman, Tomer; Deetman, Sebastiaan; Behrens, Paul; Chen, Wei-Qiang; de Koning, Arjan; Xu, Ming; Matus, Kira; Ward, Hauke; Tukker, Arnold; Zimmerman, Julie B. (Journal article, 2023)
      The foundations of today’s societies are provided by manufactured capital accumulation driven by investment decisions through time. Reconceiving how the manufactured assets are harnessed in the production–consumption system ...