The role of negative CO2 emmissions for reaching 3 C-insights form integrated assessment modelling

Open access Sep 2026

Limiting warming by CO2 and methane mitigation in an expanded scenario space

Anthropogenic methane (CH4) currently contributes more than 0.6 ∘C to global warming, and CH4 mitigation is a powerful option to limit near-term warming. Assessments of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation rely on Integrated Assessment Model scenarios with typically non-linear emission trajectories (due to economic optimiza...

Konstantin Weber, R. Knutti, Lena Brun et al. · Communications Earth & Envir... · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Emissions and system-level decarbonization pathways for global petrochemical production

The petrochemical industry is responsible for 13% of global industrial and 3.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions, yet a globally consistent facility-level emissions inventory is lacking. Here we present a bottom-up assessment of historical, current and prospective emissions from 37,379 production facilities, cover...

Fanran Meng, Luke Cullen, Philip Mitchell et al. · Nature Sustainability · 2 citations

Open access Oct 2026

Land carbon sinks in the European Union are not keeping pace with carbon neutrality expectations

The European Union has substantially reduced greenhouse-gas emissions since 1990, yet the land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sink has not strengthened in parallel. The EU-27 LULUCF balance was approximately −231 MtCO₂e in 2024, while the latest Member State projections indicate a remaining gap of 40–55 MtC...

Behrouz Gholamahmadi, Eva Ivits · Carbon Neutrality · 0 citations

Review Open access Aug 2026

Comparison of major EU and climate scenarios for 2040: what contribution from energy savings and sufficiency?

Extended abstract 3-288-26 While the role of energy demand reduction to meet climate objectives is increasingly considered, most scenarios do not fully reflect this potential, and only a few explore low-demand pathways. Literature reviews show that this is not only due to preferences of modellers or scenario users, but...

Stephane Bourgeois, Y. Marignac, Nicolas Taillard et al. · Eceee ... summer study proce... · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Carbon emissions exacerbating the Western US water crisis

In the western US, limited water supply and high demand--accentuated by anthropogenic climate change--have resulted in overallocated water resources and rapidly depleting groundwater. Simultaneously, legal and policy mechanisms are being pursued regarding the contributions of large emitting entities (“Carbon Majors”) t...

E. Williams, J. Abatzoglou, Carly A. Phillips et al. · Communications Earth & Envir... · 0 citations

Open access Oct 2026

Long-Term Carbon Neutrality Pathways Enhance the Stability of Global Wind Energy Resources

Projection and evaluation of wind energy changes toward carbon neutrality are important for energy planning. However, the benefits of wind energy changes along carbon neutrality or low-carbon development pathways remain understood insufficiently. Based on models’ datasets from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project...

Jing He, Jing-Yong Zhang, Ye Zhang et al. · Sustainability · 0 citations