• Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies 

      Hertwich, Edgar G.; Gibon, Thomas; Bouman, Evert; Arvesen, Anders; Suh, Sangwon; Heath, Garvin; Bergesen, Joseph; Ramirez, Andrea; Vega, Mabel; Shi, Lei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Decarbonization of electricity generation can support climate-change mitigation and presents an opportunity to address pollution resulting from fossil-fuel combustion. Generally, renewable technologies require higher initial ...
    • 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 ...