• Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions 

      Pendrill, Florence; Persson, U. Martin; godar, javier; Kastner, Thomas; Moran, Daniel; Schmidt, Sarah; Wood, Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Deforestation, the second largest source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is largely driven by expanding forestry and agriculture. However, despite agricultural expansion being increasingly driven by foreign ...
    • Carbon mitigation in domains of high consumer lock-in 

      Ivanova, Diana; Vita, Gibran; Wood, Richard; Lausselet, Carine; Dumitru, Adina; Krause, Karen; Macsinga, Irina; Hertwich, Edgar G. (Journal article, 2018)
      As climate policy needs to address all feasible ways to reduce carbon emissions, there is an increasing focus on demand-side solutions. Studies of household carbon footprints have allocated emissions during production to ...
    • Decoupling or delusion? Measuring emissions displacement in foreign trade 

      Jiborn, Magnus; Kander, Astrid; Kulionis, Victor; Nielsen, Hannah; Moran, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In a world where climate goals are global but action remains firmly in the hands of states, reliable methods are needed to ensure that emissions reductions on a national level are not offset by carbon leakage. Appropriate ...
    • Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe’s structural deficit in resource endowments 

      Tukker, Arnold; Bulavskaya, Tanya; Giljum, Stefan; de Koning, Arjan; Lutter, Stephan; Silva Simas, Moana; Stadler, Konstantin; Wood, Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The European Union (EU) has proposed in its Resource-efficiency roadmap a ‘dashboard of indicators’ consisting of four headline indicators for carbon, water, land and materials. The EU recognizes the need to use a ...
    • Estimating future wood outtakes in the Norwegian forestry sector under the shared socioeconomic pathways 

      Hu, Xiangping; Iordan, Cristina Maria; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      The forest sector plays a key role in achieving low temperature stabilization targets, as woody biomass represents a cost-efficient alternative to fossil fuels for energy and material production. Estimates of future woody ...
    • Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100 

      Gurney, Kevin R.; Kilkcis, Siir; Seto, Karen C.; Lwasa, Shuaib; Moran, Daniel; Riahi, Keywan; keller, meredith; Rayner, Peter J.; luqman, muhammed (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Projections of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are critical to enable a better understanding and anticipation of future climate change under different socio-economic conditions and mitigation strategies. The climate projections ...
    • Rising carbon inequality and its driving factors from 2005 to 2015 

      Zheng, Heran; Wood, Richard John; Moran, Daniel Dean; Feng, Kuishuang; Tisserant, Alexandre Fabien Regis; Jiang, Meng; Hertwich, Edgar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Carbon inequality is the gap in carbon footprints between the rich and the poor, reflecting an uneven distribution of wealth and mitigation responsibility. Whilst much is known about the level of inequality surrounding ...
    • The Role of In-Use Stocks in the Social Metabolism and in Climate Change Mitigation 

      Pauliuk, Stefan; Müller, Daniel Beat (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Human well-being includes the use of physical services from buildings, infrastructure, and consumer products. These in-use stocks link the services enjoyed by humans to energy and material consumption. Climate change ...