Environmental and social footprints of international trade

T Wiedmann, M Lenzen - Nature geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
Globalization has led to an increasing geospatial separation of production and consumption,
and, as a consequence, to an unprecedented displacement of environmental and social …

A review of existing policy for reducing embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions of buildings

K Skillington, RH Crawford, G Warren-Myers… - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The building sector is a significant contributor to global energy demand and greenhouse gas
emissions and thus has a major role in combating climate change. To date, efforts to …

Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic

M Lenzen, M Li, A Malik, F Pomponi, YY Sun… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated:“COVID-19 is much more than a
health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the …

Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12

M Lenzen, A Geschke, J West, J Fry, A Malik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable development depends on decoupling economic growth from resource use. The
material footprint indicator accounts for environmental pressure related to a country's final …

Hybrid life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from cement, concrete and geopolymer concrete in Australia

SH Teh, T Wiedmann, A Castel, J de Burgh - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Concrete is the second most used material after water and the production of cement is
responsible for 5–8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. The development of low-carbon …

Systems thinking for life cycle sustainability assessment: A review of recent developments, applications, and future perspectives

NC Onat, M Kucukvar, A Halog, S Cloutier - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (eg, goods,
and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle …

Three‐scope carbon emission inventories of global cities

T Wiedmann, G Chen, A Owen… - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A major challenge for cities taking action on climate change is assessing and managing the
contribution of urban consumption which triggers greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions outside …

Entropy-based Chinese city-level MRIO table framework

H Zheng, J Többen, E Dietzenbacher… - Economic Systems …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cities are pivotal hubs of socioeconomic activities, and consumption in cities contributes to
global environmental pressures. Compiling city-level multi-regional input-output (MRIO) …

Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on food supply chains cascade across sectors and regions in Australia

A Malik, M Li, M Lenzen, J Fry, N Liyanapathirana… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Disasters resulting from climate change and extreme weather events adversely impact crop
and livestock production. While the direct impacts of these events on productivity are …

Identifying species threat hotspots from global supply chains

D Moran, K Kanemoto - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Identifying hotspots of species threat has been a successful approach for setting
conservation priorities. One important challenge in conservation is that, in many hotspots …