Publications

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Leffel, B., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Accelerating global city commitments and actions on climate change. Energy and Climate Change, 7. doi:10.1016/j.egycc.2025.100233

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Chen, M., Wu, K., Pradhan, P., Allen, C., Nativi, S., Hubacek, K., . . . Lü, G. (2026). Steering open-source AI to accelerate the sustainable development goals. Nature Communications, 17(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73866-8

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Heinz, E., Sovacool, B. K., Kwan, T., & Petit, V. (2026). Risky business? Professional insights on ranking decarbonization risks for the building sector. Sustainable Futures, 12. doi:10.1016/j.sftr.2026.102010

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Martin, M. A., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Cool cities, local contexts: A typology of cooling interventions across the disciplines to address extreme heat and decarbonization in urban areas. Energy and Buildings, 369. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2026.117975

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Heinz, E., Sovacool, B. K., Kwan, T., Nordensvärd, J., Urban, F., Asif, M., . . . Arvidsson, N. (2026). Towards a typology of residential energy consumers: Social context and awareness as predictors of energy-efficient household behaviors in the United States. Ecological Economics, 248. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109058

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Amoah, M., Sovacool, B., Usman, Z., Yimere, A., Hendrix, C. S., Dolton-Thornton, N., . . . Kamurai, C. (2026). Sustainable development and Africa’s critical minerals: A multi-framework approach. Extractive Industries and Society, 27. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2026.101913

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Asif, M., Sovacool, B. K., Ali, Z., Heinz, E., Kwan, T. A., Nordensvärd, J., . . . Zhang, W. (2026). Beyond technology determinants of energy efficiency in Saudi residential buildings: socioeconomic factors, awareness, and barriers. Energy Conversion and Management X, 31. doi:10.1016/j.ecmx.2026.101976

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Sovacool, B., Zhang, W., Iskandarova, M., & Griffiths, S. (2026). Beyond a single path: a meta-theoretical review of how spatial, political, and institutional dynamics shape China’s net-zero transition. Energy Research and Social Science, 138, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2026.104828

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Hankendi, C., Coskun, A. K., & Sovacool, B. (2026). CarbonMeter: A Lightweight Framework for Achieving Sustainable and Cost-Efficient Data Centers. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 75(8), 2745-2756. doi:10.1109/TC.2026.3687473

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Furszyfer Del Rio, D. D., Sovacool, B. K., & Fish, A. (2026). Energy poverty among the “invisible minority”: Lived experiences of energy injustice and renewable energy among Irish Travellers. Geoforum, 174. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104696

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Zhang, W., Iskandarova, M., Griffiths, S., & Sovacool, B. (2026). Faster, Higher, Fairer? How multi-level instrumental justice reconfigures net-zero energy transitions in China. Energy Policy, 215, pages. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115301

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Hankendi, C., Coskun, A. K., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Beyond the carbon emissions of Artificial Intelligence (AI): A whole-systems energy and environmental sustainability analysis of datacenters in Denmark, Germany and Norway. Energy Research & Social Science, 138, 104839. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2026.104839

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Agarwala, M., Burke, M., Klusak, P., Kraemer, M., Volz, U., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Biodiversity loss will decrease the future creditworthiness of nations. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 10(8), 1511-1520. doi:10.1038/s41559-026-03081-7

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Kopp, M., Montfort, S., Pflieger, G., Wagner, N., Kyrychenko, O., Nogherotto, R., . . . Creutzig, F. (2026). Climate mitigation and adaptation strategies tailored for different types of European cities: a typology and associated systematic review. Environmental Research Letters, 21(14). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae7e97

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Yang, K., Andersen, A. D., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). The need for speed: mapping a conceptual typology for accelerating transitions toward sustainability. Sustainability Science, 21(4), 1879-1900. doi:10.1007/s11625-026-01805-z

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Kim, J., Sovacool, B., Griffiths, S., Bazilian, M., Creutzig, F., Furszyfer Del Rio, D. D., . . . Debnath, R. (2026). Reviewing the socio-technical dynamics of AI, data centers and digitalization on energy and the environment. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 234, pages. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2026.116861

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Creutzig, F., Javaid, A., Mastrucci, A., Kılkış, Ş., Nachtigall, F., Zhao, B., . . . Napiontek, J. (2026). Scenario modelling shows urban planning can reduce city-scale GHG emissions in transport and buildings by 14% in 2050. Environmental Research Letters, 21(14). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae83d1

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Berger, S., & Creutzig, F. (2026). Malleable Preferences and the Normative Desirability of Demand-Side Solutions to Climate Change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 17(4). doi:10.1002/wcc.70079

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Kukowski, C. A., Nielsen, K. S., Kühne, S. J., Hogan, C., van der Linden, S., Whitmarsh, L., . . . Nicholas, K. A. (2026). Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 16(6), 627-629. doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02644-7

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Sovacool, B. K., Fitzpatrick, N., Fritz, L., & Losi, L. (2026). Plentitude of Pathways: Expert Views on the Benefits and Risks of Carbon Dioxide Removal in Six Countries. Environmental Science and Technology, 60(19), 13997-14010. doi:10.1021/acs.est.6c02066

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Heinz, E., Zhang, W., Sovacool, B. K., Kwan, T., Nordensvärd, J., Urban, F., . . . Arvidsson, N. (2026). Acting without ownership: private-sphere energy efficiency practices in China. Energy and Buildings, 359. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2026.117266

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Dunlap, A. A., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Poisoned together in prison: Toxicant politics, disposability and carceral capitalism in testimonies of electronic & military waste recycling in a sunbelt Gulag. Political Geography, 127. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103515

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Zhang, S., Sovacool, B. K., & Wei, C. (2026). Do clean energy transitions enhance global energy security? A comparative analysis of trends and tradeoffs across eight major economies, 1990-2020. Energy Policy, 212. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115164

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O’Neill, D. W., & Creutzig, F. (2026). A strong sustainability approach to AI development. Nature Machine Intelligence, 8(5), 642-644. doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01240-w

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Wagner, F., Nachtigall, F., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Franken, L., Koch, N., Runge, J., . . . Creutzig, F. (2026). Refining urban typologies: causal insights into urban form, car commuting, and related CO2 emissions. Environmental Research Letters, 21(10). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae6881

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Agarwala, M., & Tol, R. (2026). Liabilities for the social cost of carbon. Climate Change Economics, pages. doi:10.1142/S201000782650003X

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Asif, M., Sovacool, B. K., Ali, Z., Heinz, E., Kwan, T. A., Nordensväed, J., . . . Zhang, W. (2026). Of demographics, technology, and geography: The social determinants of energy consumption patterns and user behaviour in Saudi Arabia’s residential sector. Energy and Buildings, 356. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2026.117061

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Sovacool, B. K., Fritz, L., Baum, C. M., Debnath, R., Cantoni, R., & Martori, F. (2026). A multiplicity of tomorrows from ‘giving the world cancer’ to ‘colonizing space’: Imagining 299 climate intervention futures from a foresight exercise across 44 focus groups. Environmental Science and Policy, 178. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104367

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Creutzig, F., Javaid, A., Mastrucci, A., Kilkis, S., Nachtigall, F., Zhao, B., . . . Napiontek, J. (2026). Urban planning can reduce urban GHG emissions in transport and buildings by 14% in 2050. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-9211596/v1

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Baum, C. M., Lades, L., Fritz, L., & Sovacool, B. (2026). Do economic preferences predict public support for different carbon dioxide removal technologies?. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-2563

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Hudson, M., Sovacool, B., & AbdulRafiu, A. (2026). “What’s the worst that could happen?” Perceptions of physical, financial, reputational, and policy risk in the United Kingdom’s low-carbon industrial transition. Energy Strategy Reviews, 64. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2026.102129

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Creutzig, F., Denton, F., Hine, E., Joshi, S., Ke, G., Kyrychenko, Y., . . . O’Neill, D. W. (2026). Governing artificial intelligence for planetary health. Lancet Planetary Health, 10(3). doi:10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101408

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Thombs, R. P., Sovacool, B. K., Jorgenson, A. K., Buonocore, J. J., & Willis, M. D. (2026). A Not-So-Just Transition? Examining the Effects of Coal Sector Decline on Life Expectancy in U.S. Counties. Rural Sociology, 91(1). doi:10.1111/ruso.70034

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Beath, H., Mittal, S., Gambhir, A., Barzin, S., Bistline, J., Creutzig, F., . . . Lamboll, R. (2026). Artificial intelligence drives divergent emission futures. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8582166/v1

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Griffiths, S., Uratani, J. M., Evensen, D., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Electric momentum? Catalyzing electric vehicle adoption in the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Cleaner Production, 543. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.147509

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Iskandarova, M., Uratani, J., Furszyfer Del Rio, D. D., Griffiths, S., Walnum, H. J., & Sovacool, B. (2026). Beyond geography, destiny, and politics: exploring policy styles for industrial decarbonisation in Norway, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 132, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2026.104563

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Sovacool, B. K., & In, J. (2026). Harness gender empowerment to achieve climate justice, sustainability, and equity. Environmental Science and Policy, 176. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104314

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Zhang, W., Sovacool, B. K., & Cleveland, C. (2026). Do decarbonization policies work? Evidence from a global meta-analysis. Energy Economics, 154. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109145

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Sovacool, B. K., Heinz, E., Kwan, T., & Petit, V. (2026). Conflicted about building decarbonization: Contested climate justice imaginaries in expert visions of low-carbon and net-zero buildings. Urban Climate, 65. doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102806

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Heinz, E., Sovacool, B. K., Kwan, T., & Petit, V. (2026). The barriers and drivers to decarbonization of the building sector in the United States: Qualitative insights from Boston and Phoenix. Building and Environment, 289. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.114032

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Guo, C., Agarwala, M., Freeman, M., Groom, B., & McKenzie, E. (2026). [Editorial] Introduction to the special issue: ‘Biodiversity and Finance: Risk, Disclosure and Double Materiality’. Ecological Economics, 240, pages. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108798

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Yamaguchi, R., Agarwala, M., & Atkinson, G. (2026). Non-renewable natural capital and the social cost of carbon in wealth accounting. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103304. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2026.103304

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Sovacool, B., Griffiths, S., Herman, K., & Iskandarova, M. (2026). A critical meta-survey of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of hydrogen energy systems. Energy Research & Social Science, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104461

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O’Donnell, D., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Cities need an integrated and holistic approach to health adaptation in climate planning. Nature Cities, 3(1), 38-47. doi:10.1038/s44284-025-00364-1

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Hintz, M. J., Gross, M., Creutzig, F., & Kaack, L. H. (2026). Practical implementation of artificial intelligence for climate change mitigation in cities – priorities, collaborations and challenges. Energy Research and Social Science, 131. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104498

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Mitterrutzner, B., Sovacool, B. K., Knudsen, B. R., Bazilian, M. D., Kim, J., Roussanaly, S., . . . Griffiths, S. (2026). Scaling carbon capture and storage (CCS) to gigaton capacity: A multi-dimensional and critical review. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 149. doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2025.104531

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Hintz, M. J., H. Kaack, L., Creutzig, F., & Vitale, T. (2026). Framing Artificial Intelligence as a Policy Instrument in Urban Climate Action: Practitioners’ Perspectives from Paris. doi:10.2139/ssrn.6207135

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Sovacool, B. (2026). Climate change interventions at the “top of the world”: exploring risk–risk tradeoffs in Arctic coastal protection and forest carbon removal in Alaska. Frontiers in Political Science, 8. doi:10.3389/fpos.2026.1695743

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Dunlap, A. A., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Does solar energy get recycled? Exploring the political ecology and toxic geographies of solar panel disposal. Human Geography United Kingdom. doi:10.1177/19427786261419021

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Scheifinger, K., Brutschin, E., Mintz-Woo, K., Zimm, C., Kikstra, J. S., Rogelj, J., . . . Riahi, K. (2026). Exploring patterns of distributional justice in global climate change mitigation scenarios.. npj climate action, 5(1), 39. doi:10.1038/s44168-026-00364-4

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Agarwala, M., & Creutzig, F. (2026). Sustainability principles can address the looming AI tax gap. doi:10.2139/ssrn.6549198

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Salehi, P., Corbett, D., Creutzig, F., Pamlin, D., Sandholz, S., Asadzadeh, A., . . . Kötter, T. (2026). Digitalization for City-Level Models, Data, and Knowledge: Enabling Trust, Transparency, and Evidence-Based Climate Action. In A Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science (pp. 169-195). Springer Nature Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-95-6517-7_8

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Hooshmandi, S., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Beyond innovation and finance: Reviewing 25 years of United States climate change adaptation foreign aid objectives across 117 projects. Climate and Development. doi:10.1080/17565529.2026.2681023

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Fritz, L., Losi, L., Baum, C. M., Low, S., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Reflecting on the politics and power dynamics of contested climate technologies. Environmental Science and Policy. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104448

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Gudipudi, R., Costa, L., Arumugam, P., Agarwala, M., Creutzig, F., & Kropp, J. P. (2026). From corporate net-zero pledges to credible climate action. Nature Sustainability. doi:10.1038/s41893-026-01908-6

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Yang, X., Sun, Y., Duan, H., Jiao, Y., Sovacool, B. K., Qin, Y., . . . Wang, S. (2026). <p>Limiting Climate Change Through Demandside Dietary Shifts</p>. doi:10.2139/ssrn.7092819

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Shuai, H., Chen, C. F., Sovacool, B., Sumkhuu, S., & Shen, Z. (2025). Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States. Environmental Science and Technology, 59(50), 27206-27221. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c09116

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Martin, M., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Beyond the thermostat: Critically reviewing the scientific evidence for global cooling and air conditioning demand. Applied Energy, 401. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.126852

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Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Confronting a “silent killer:” reducing vulnerability to extreme heat in urban West Africa with surface cooling technology and climate-resilient roofing. Climatic Change, 178(12). doi:10.1007/s10584-025-04061-9

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Heinz, E., Sovacool, B. K., Kwan, T., & Petit, V. (2025). Reviewing the 95 sociotechnical barriers to the decarbonization of buildings. Nature Communications, 16(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64923-9

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Sovacool, B. K., Fritz, L., Baum, C. M., Losi, L., Debnath, R., Walnum, H. J., . . . Brutschin, E. (2025). Social attitudes towards climate interventions: Are European publics uninformed about carbon removal and solar radiation management?. Environmental Science and Policy, 174. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104287

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Smith, J., Hirsch, J., Jalbert, K., Keeler, L., OConnell, K., Roberts, D. L., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Community-based research supports more just and equitable industrial decarbonization. Nature Communications, 16, pages. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-63569-x

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Brisbois, M. C., Torres Contreras, G. A., Loe, M. R., Balest, J., Smith, A., Sareen, S., . . . Sovacool, B. (2025). Spaces, forms, and levels engagement: using the Powercube to explore social inclusion in digital energy and mobility systems. Research Policy, 54(10), pages. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2025.105323

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Amosi, N., Sovacool, B. K., Pearl-Martinez, R., David, N. P., Shader, C. S., Schnur, S. T., . . . Bidwell, D. (2025). Reviewing metrics and indicators for energy, climate, and environmental justice: A synthesis of 25 years of research. Energy Research and Social Science, 130. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104462

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Ryu, H., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Divergent Patterns in Wind Power Project Cost Overruns: How Scale Matters and Determinants of Construction Risk. Wind Energy, 28(12). doi:10.1002/we.70053

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AbdulRafiu, A., Sovacool, B. K., Hudson, M., Maroto-Valer, M. M., & Howard, C. (2025). Beyond carbon emissions reductions: Examining the co-benefits of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 8, 100132. doi:10.1016/j.rset.2025.100132

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Reichstein, M., Benson, V., Blunk, J., Camps-Valls, G., Creutzig, F., Fearnley, C. J., . . . Weldemariam, K. (2025). Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence. Nature Communications, 16(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57640-w

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Hankendi, C., Coskun, A. K., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Why transparency matters for sustainable data centers and carbon-neutral artificial intelligence (AI). Iscience, 28(11). doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.113705

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van der Spek, M., Bardow, A., Baum, C. M., Bolongaro, V., Dufour-Décieux, V., Esch, C., . . . Minx, J. C. (2025). An ecosystem of carbon dioxide removal reviews – part 1: direct air CO2capture and storage. Energy and Environmental Science, 18(22), 9713-9785. doi:10.1039/d5ee01732g

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Lockwood, M., Herman, K., Iskandarova, M., Pultar, A., Ferrier, J., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Beyond industrial decarbonisation strategy: lessons from the bottom-up policy mix in the United Kingdom, 2021-2023. Energy Research and Social Science, 130, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104431

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Malakar, Y., Baum, C. M., Gardner, J., Brent, K., Jeanneret, T., Fritz, L., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Beyond environmental identity: Testing public support for novel carbon dioxide removal in Australia using structural modelling. Journal of Environmental Management, 394. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127633

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Zhang, W., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). The “triple burden” effect and “pressure-opportunity paradox” of net-zero transitions: Exploring the political economy of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) implementation in the Global South. Energy Strategy Reviews, 62. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2025.101913

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Sovacool, B., Delina, L. L., & Martin, B. (2025). Collective climate geoengineering futures through a global participatory technology foresight exercise. Energy Research and Social Science, 129, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104329

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Gohr, C., Rodríguez, G., Belomestnykh, S., Berg-Moelleken, D., Chauhan, N., Engler, J. O., . . . von Wehrden, H. (2025). Author Correction: Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research (Nature Sustainability, (2025), 8, 8, (970-978), 10.1038/s41893-025-01598-6). Nature Sustainability, 8(11), 1408. doi:10.1038/s41893-025-01645-2

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Sovacool, B. K., Devine-Wright, P., Mander, S., Rowley, J., & Ryder, S. (2025). Realising a locally-embedded just transition: Sense of place, lived experience, and social perceptions of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom. Global Environmental Change, 94. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103051

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Heinz, E., Sovacool, B. K., Kwan, T., & Petit, V. (2025). Critically reviewing the 50 sociotechnical risks of building sector decarbonization: Conceptualizing risk as a proximity spiral. Energy and Buildings, 344. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116042

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Hintz, M. J., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Creutzig, F., Repke, T., & Kaack, L. H. (2025). A systematic map of machine learning for urban climate change mitigation. Nature Cities, 2(10), 924-936. doi:10.1038/s44284-025-00328-5

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Sovacool, B. K. (2025). “Identifying thirteen core themes in energy and social science research”. Energy Research and Social Science, 127. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104282

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Müller-Hansen, F., Fritz, L., Lück, S., Sovacool, B. K., & Minx, J. C. (2025). Technology, geography and collaboration networks: assessing global innovation and research funding patterns for carbon removal. Environmental Research Communications, 7(9). doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ae0099

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Keil, M., Creutzig, F., & Molkenthin, N. (2025). Ride-pooling adoption model for CO2 emission estimation. Journal of Physics Complexity, 6(3). doi:10.1088/2632-072X/adffd4

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Chandrashekeran, S., Fish, A., Thurbon, E., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Overcome threats to renewable energy through skilful statecraft. Nature, 644(8075), 42. doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02479-w

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Gohr, C., Rodríguez, G., Belomestnykh, S., Berg-Moelleken, D., Chauhan, N., Engler, J. O., . . . von Wehrden, H. (2025). Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research. Nature Sustainability, 8(8), 970-978. doi:10.1038/s41893-025-01598-6

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Seddik, G. H., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Climate policy, Least Developed Countries, and the Sustainable Development Goals: A critical review of SDG13 and infrastructural, institutional, and informational resilience. Environmental Science and Policy, 170. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104129

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Gudipudi, R., Costa, L., Arumugam, P., Agarwala, M., Kropp, J., & Creutzig, F. (2025). Operationalizing corporate climate action through five research frontiers. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-7214770/v1

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Agarwala, M. (2025). Bring science into business schools to train the leaders of tomorrow. Nature, 643(8072), 610. doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02214-5

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Ford, J. D., Biesbroek, R., Ford, L. B., Creutzig, F., Haddaway, N., Harper, S., . . . Callaghan, M. (2025). Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments. Nature Climate Change, 15(7), 698-708. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02354-6

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Ford, J. D., Biesbroek, R., Ford, L. B., Creutzig, F., Haddaway, N., Harper, S., . . . Callaghan, M. (2025). Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments (Nature Climate Change, (2025), 15, 7, (698-708), 10.1038/s41558-025-02354-6). Nature Climate Change, 15(7), 801. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02378-y

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Uratani, J. M., Evensen, D., Sovacool, B., & Griffiths, S. (2025). Benchmarking and tailoring electric vehicle policies to stimulate adoption. Energy Research and Social Science, 125, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104074

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Montfort, S., Callaghan, M., Creutzig, F., Lamb, W. F., Lu, C., Repke, T., . . . Minx, J. (2025). Systematic global stocktake of over 50,000 urban climate change studies. Nature Cities, 2(7), 613-625. doi:10.1038/s44284-025-00260-8

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Hermwille, L., Brisbois, M. C., Hiteva, R., Yazar, M., Nacke, L., Jewell, J., . . . Anger-Kraavi, A. (2025). [Comment] Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition. Nature Energy, pages. doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01785-x

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Sovacool, B., Baum, C. M., Fritz, L., & Low, S. (2025). Exploring global climate intervention experiments: sociotechnical promises, innovation dynamics, and perceived co-impacts across 20 projects and pilots. Sustainability Science, 20(6), 2195-2216. doi:10.1007/s11625-025-01696-6

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Berger, S., & Creutzig, F. (2025). Individualized cost–benefit analysis does not fit for demand-side mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 15(6), 610-611. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02330-0

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Herman, K. S., Sovacool, B., Geels, F. W., & Iskandarova, M. (2025). Navigating reconfiguration and disruption: decarbonization pathways for UK industrial clusters. Energy, 328, pages. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2025.136464

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Sovacool, B., Novaković, B., & Dunlap, A. A. (2025). Sex for solar? Examining patterns of public and private sector corruption within the booming California solar energy market. Energy Strategy Reviews, 59, pages. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2025.101727

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Mendez, Q. R., Creutzig, F., & Fuss, S. (2025). Deep uncertainty in carbon dioxide removal portfolios. Environmental Research Letters, 20(5), pages. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adc613

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Sovacool, B. K., & Ryu, H. (2025). Beyond economies of scale: Learning from construction cost overrun risks and time delays in global energy infrastructure projects. Energy Research and Social Science, 123. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104057

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Gaffney, O., Luers, A., Carrero-Martinez, F., Oztekin-Gunaydin, B., Creutzig, F., Dignum, V., . . . Takahashi Guevara, K. (2025). The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence. Nature Sustainability, 8(5), 467-469. doi:10.1038/s41893-025-01536-6

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Herman, K., Hall, J., Sovacool, B., & Iskandarova, M. (2025). The industrial decarbonization paradigm: carbon lock-ins or path renewal in the United Kingdom?. Ecological Economics, 235, pages. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108628

Article

Creutzig, F., McPhearson, T., Bardhan, R., Belmin, C., Chow, W. T. L., Garschagen, M., . . . Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2025). Bridging the scale between the local particular and the global universal in climate change assessments of cities. Nature Cities, 2(5), 369-378. doi:10.1038/s44284-025-00226-w

Article

Thombs, R. P., Zhang, W., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Do industrial decarbonization policies deliver? A global assessment of policy effectiveness across 150 nations, 1990-2020. Environmental Research Letters, 20(4), pages. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adbfae

Article

Zhang, Z., Qian, Z., Chen, M., Zhu, R., Zhang, F., Zhong, T., . . . Yan, J. (2025). Worldwide rooftop photovoltaic electricity generation may mitigate global warming. Nature Climate Change, 1-10. doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02276-3

Article

Evensen, D., Uratani, J. M., Sovacool, B., & Griffiths, S. (2025). A novel model for barriers to electric vehicle adoption in the Middle East. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, 142, pages. doi:10.1016/j.trd.2025.104714

Article

Scheifinger, K., Brutschin, E., Zimm, C., Mintz-Woo, K., Kikstra, J., Pachauri, S., . . . Fritz, L. (2025). Breaking Barriers with Patterns: New Tools for Integrating Distributional Justice into Global Mitigation Scenarios. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12797

Article

Baum, C. M., Brutschin, E., Fritz, L., & Sovacool, B. (2025). A new hope or phantom menace? Exploring climate emotions and public support for climate interventions across 30 countries. Risk Analysis, pages. doi:10.1111/risa.17713

Article

Sovacool, B., Del Rio, D. F., Herman, K., Iskandarova, M., Uratani, J. M., & Griffiths, S. (2025). Correction: Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges. Energy & Environmental Science, pages. doi:10.1039/d5ee90031j

Article

Dunlap, A. A., Novaković, B., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Mining as environmentalism: green/grey extractivism and the production of extractive subjectivities around the Rio Tinto Kennecott mine in the United States. Globalizations, 1-36. doi:10.1080/14747731.2025.2465069

Preprint

Heinz, E., Sovacool, B., Kwan, T., & Petit, V. (2025). The sociotechnical barriers to the decarbonization of buildings. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-5926332/v1

Article

Amazeen, M. A., Sovacool, B., Krishna, A., Debnath, R., & Wells, C. (2025). The “Future of Energy”? Building resilience to ExxonMobil’s disinformation through disclosures and inoculation. npj Climate Action, 4(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s44168-025-00209-6

Article

Sovacool, B., Geels, F. W., Andersen, A. D., Grubb, M., Jordan, A. J., Kern, F., . . . Yang, K. (2025). The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research. Energy Research & Social Science, 121, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2025.103948

Article

Sovacool, B., Griffiths, S., Walnum, H. J., Furszyfer, D. D., & Iskandarova, M. (2025). Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization. Environmental Science and Policy, 165, pages. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104017

Article

Moner-Girona, M., Fahl, F., Kakoulaki, G., Kim, D. -H., Maduako, I., Szabó, S., . . . Weiss, D. J. (2025). Empowering quality education through sustainable and equitable electricity access in African schools. Joule, 9(2), pages. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2024.12.005

Article

Griffiths, S., Sovacool, B., Iskandarova, M., & Walnum, H. J. (2025). Bridging the gap between defossilization and decarbonization to achieve net-zero industry. Environmental Research Letters, 20(2), pages. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adaed6

Article

Low, S., Brutschin, E., Baum, C. M., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Expert perspectives on incorporating justice considerations into integrated assessment modelling. npj Climate Action, 4(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s44168-025-00218-5

Article

Williams, L., Martin, A., & Sovacool, B. K. (2025). Plausibility, Acceptability, and Trustworthiness: The Resonance of Shale Gas Frames in the United Kingdom. Environmental Communication, 1-36. doi:10.1080/17524032.2025.2458216

Article

Diezmartínez, C. V., Sovacool, B., & Short Gianotti, A. G. (2025). Conflicted climate futures: Climate justice imaginaries as tools for policy evaluation in cities. Energy Research and Social Science, 120, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103886

Article

Fritz, L., Losi, L., Baum, C. M., Low, S., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Between inflated expectations and inherent distrust: how publics see the role of experts in governing climate intervention technologies. Environmental Science and Policy, 164, pages. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104005

Article

Dunlap, A. A., & Sovacool, B. (2025). “It’s kind of just another factory:” A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio. Journal of Political Ecology, 32(1), pages. doi:10.2458/jpe.6222

Article

Ge, K., Creutzig, F., & Hintz, M. J. (2025). Technology first, sustainability later: a systematic review on the literature on the policy development of China’s smart city strategy. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 4(4), pages. doi:10.1088/2634-4505/ad9ed7

Article

Sovacool, B., Dunlap, A. A., & Novaković, B. (2025). When decarbonization reinforces colonization: complex energy injustice and solar energy development in the California desert. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 115(3), 640-670. doi:10.1080/24694452.2024.2433040

Article

Wehden, S., Janda, K. B., Jansen, J., & Creutzig, F. (2025). Local climate action from the middle-out: the social potential of craft guilds to facilitate low-carbon installations in Germany. Energy Efficiency, 18(1), 2 ( pages). doi:10.1007/s12053-024-10287-w

Article

Wieland, A., & Creutzig, F. (2025). Taking Academic Ownership of the Supply Chain Emissions Discourse. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 61(1), 3-13. doi:10.1111/jscm.12338

Article

Krull, L. F., Baum, C. M., & Sovacool, B. (2025). A geographic analysis and techno-economic assessment of renewable heat sources for low-temperature direct air capture in Europe. Energy Conversion and Management, 323, pages. doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2024.119186

Article

Sovacool, B. (2025). The low-carbon risk society: dilemmas of risk–risk tradeoffs in energy innovations, transitions, and climate policy. Risk Analysis, 45(1), 78-107. doi:10.1111/risa.14667

Article

Losi, L., Fritz, L., & Sovacool, B. (2025). Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes. Climate Policy, pages. doi:10.1080/14693062.2025.2485204

Preprint

Sovacool, B. K., Clery, D., Gough, C., Douglass, C., Marr, I., Iskandarova, M., . . . Vakili, S. (n.d.). <p>IDRIC Frontiers Report: <span>Policy and Governance</span></p><p></p>. doi:10.2139/ssrn.5517239

Article

Low, S., Fritz, L., Baum, C. M., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Public perceptions on carbon removal from focus groups in 22 countries. Nature Communications, 15(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-47853-w

Article

Fritz, L., Baum, C. M., Low, S., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Public engagement for inclusive and sustainable governance of climate interventions. Nature Communications, 15(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-48510-y

Article

Low, S., Fritz, L., Baum, C. M., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Public perceptions on solar geoengineering from focus groups in 22 countries. Communications Earth and Environment, 5(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01518-0

Article

Lee, D. Y., McDermott, M. H., Sovacool, B., & Isaac, R. (2024). Toward just and equitable mobility: socioeconomic and perceptual barriers for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the United States. Energy and Climate Change, 5, pages. doi:10.1016/j.egycc.2024.100146

Article

Baum, C. M., Fritz, L., Low, S., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Public perceptions and support of climate intervention technologies across the Global North and Global South. Nature Communications, 15(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46341-5

Article

Herman, K., Chen, C. F., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Framing industrial decarbonization technologies in the public sphere: narratives from the digital ‘town square’ in the United Kingdom. Environmental Research Communications, 6(12), 125006. doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ad9891

Article

Herman, K., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Reinventing the global oil capital: the sociotechnical dynamics of industrial net-zero megaprojects in Texas. Extractive Industries and Society, 20, pages. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2024.101518

Article

Sovacool, B., Evensen, D., Baum, C. M., Fritz, L., & Low, S. (2024). Demographics shape public preferences for carbon dioxide removal and solar geoengineering interventions across 30 countries. Communications Earth and Environment, 5(1), 642 ( pages). doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01800-1

Article

Amoah, M., Sovacool, B., Mulvaney, D., Bazilian, M. D., Luarkie, R., & Cardenas, D. (2024). Critical minerals mining and Native American sovereignty: Comparing case studies of lithium, copper, antimony, nickel and graphite mining in the United States. Extractive Industries and Society, 20, 101557. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2024.101557

Article

Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P., Bongs, C., Bussler, A., Cave, B., . . . Zekar, A. (2024). Publisher Correction: Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century (npj Urban Sustainability, (2024), 4, 1, (29), 10.1038/s42949-024-00168-7). Npj Urban Sustainability, 4(1). doi:10.1038/s42949-024-00173-w

Article

Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P., Bongs, C., Bussler, A., Cave, B., . . . Zekar, A. (2024). Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century. npj Urban Sustainability, 4(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s42949-024-00168-7

Article

Lee, D. -Y., Wilson, A., McDermott, M. H., Sovacool, B., Kaufmann, R., Isaac, R., . . . Ward, J. (2024). Does electric mobility display racial or income disparities? Quantifying inequality in the distribution of electric vehicle adoption and charging infrastructure in the United States. Applied Energy, 378, pages. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124795

Article

Herman, K., Sovacool, B., & Iskandarova, M. (2024). Imagining a net-zero Teesside: actors, networks, and expectations in industrial decarbonisation megaprojects. Environmental Research Communications. doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ad8f99

Article

Dunlap, A. A., Sovacool, B. K., & Novakovic, B. (2024). “Our town is dying:“ Exploring utility-scale and rooftop solar energy injustices in Southeastern California. Geoforum, 156. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104120

Article

Brutschin, E., Baum, C. M., Fritz, L., Low, S., Sovacool, B. K., & Riahi, K. (2024). Drivers and attitudes of public support for technological solutions to climate change in 30 countries. Environmental Research Letters, 19(11). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad7c67

Article

Sovacool, B. K. (2024). The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future. Nature Reviews Physics, 6(11), 642-643. doi:10.1038/s42254-024-00774-5

Article

Sovacool, B., Baum, C. M., & Fritz, L. (2024). Minority groups, Indigenousness and Indigeneity, and place in social perceptions of future climate interventions. World Development, 183, pages. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106719

Article

Baresi, U., Baum, C. M., Fischer, T. B., Lockie, S., Piggott-McKellar, A., Graham, V., . . . Ristovski, Z. (2024). A call for strategic assessments of regional applications of solar radiation management: exploring the challenges and opportunities from marine cloud brightening and albedo surface modification. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 110, pages. doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107701

Article

Creutzig, F., & Reisch, L. A. (2024). A joint research agenda for climate action bridges behavioral sciences and urban planning. Commun Psychol, 2(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00143-z

Article

Fabian, M., Alexandrova, A., Coyle, D., Agarwala, M., & Felici, M. (2024). Well-being public policy needs more theory. International Journal of Wellbeing, 14(3), pages. doi:10.5502/ijw.v14i3.2691

Article

Chen, M., Qian, Z., Boers, N., Creutzig, F., Camps-Valls, G., Hubacek, K., . . . Lü, G. (2024). Collaboration between artificial intelligence and Earth science communities for mutual benefit. Nature Geoscience, 17(10), 949-952. doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01550-x

Article

Bryant, C., Aiking, H., Alessandrini, R., Behrens, P., Creutzig, F., Eshel, G., . . . van Zanten, H. (2024). The Dublin Declaration fails to recognize the need to reduce industrial animal agriculture. Nature Food, 5(10), 799-801. doi:10.1038/s43016-024-01054-2

Article

Diezmartínez, C. V., Sovacool, B. K., & Short Gianotti, A. G. (2024). Implementing climate justice in Boston’s Building Performance Standard. Nature Cities, 1(10), 628-630. doi:10.1038/s44284-024-00129-2

Article

Diezmartínez, C. V., Sovacool, B. K., & Short Gianotti, A. G. (2024). Operationalizing climate justice in the implementation of Boston’s Building Performance Standard. Nature Cities, 1(10), 665-676. doi:10.1038/s44284-024-00121-w

Article

Dunlap, A. A., Sovacool, B., & Novaković, B. (2024). ‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert. Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-35. doi:10.1080/03066150.2024.2388051

Article

Thomas, H., Carmona Aparicio, L. G., Creutzig, F., Hara, T., Hayashi, A., Ludovique, C., . . . Trouvé, M. (2024). Models and methods for transport demand and decarbonisation: a review. Environmental Research Letters, 19(9), pages. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad6b3a

Article

Herman, K., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Applying the multi-level perspective to climate geoengineering: sociotechnical bottlenecks for negative emissions and cloud seeding technologies. Energy Research and Social Science, 115, pages. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103637

Article

Matos, S. V., Schleper, M. C., Hall, J. K., Baum, C. M., Low, S., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Beyond the new normal for sustainability: transformative operations and supply chain management for negative emissions. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 44(13), 263-295. doi:10.1108/IJOPM-06-2024-0487

Article

Furszyfer Del Rio, D. D., Sovacool, B., Griffiths, S., & Uratani, J. M. (2024). Addressing energy and mobility poverty in the Middle East: lived experience, spatial injustice, and temporary migrants in the United Arab Emirates. Local Environment, 29(12), 1594-1625. doi:10.1080/13549839.2024.2391035

Article

Sovacool, B., & Stock, R. (2024). “We struggle to survive”: Exploring the whole systems energy injustices of solar photovoltaics in India. Electricity Journal, 37(6), pages. doi:10.1016/j.tej.2024.107426

Article

Sovacool, B., Mullard, S., & Ceballos, J. C. (2024). “Made for corruption?” Private sector actors, renewable energy, and corruption risks for wind power in Mexico and solar electricity in Kenya. Electricity Journal, 37(7-10), 107448. doi:10.1016/j.tej.2024.107448

Article

Sovacool, B., Clifford, H., Pearl-Martinez, R., Gause, E., Braun, D., Kamareddine, L., . . . Wellenius, G. A. (2024). Critically examining research funding patterns for climate change and human health. npj Climate Action, 3(1), pages. doi:10.1038/s44168-024-00142-0

Article

Sovacool, B. K. (2024). Exploring the route to a climate resilient future. The Project Repository Journal, 20(1), 90-93. doi:10.54050/prj2021858

Article

Fritz, L., Baum, C. M., Brutschin, E., Low, S., & Sovacool, B. (2024). Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries. Global Environmental Change, 87, pages. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102880

Article

Nerini, F. F., Mazzucato, M., Rockström, J., van Asselt, H., Hall, J. W., Matos, S., . . . Sachs, J. (2024). Extending the Sustainable Development Goals to 2050 — a road map. Nature, 630(8017), 555-558. doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01754-6

Article

Sovacool, B., Herman, K., Iskandarova, M., & Hall, J. K. (2024). “Oh Yes! Net-Zero”: sociotechnical capabilities and regional innovation systems for British industrial decarbonization. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 51, pages. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2024.100852

Article

Kim, J., Sovacool, B. K., Bazilian, M., Griffiths, S., & Yang, M. (2024). Energy, material, and resource efficiency for industrial decarbonization: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options. Energy Research and Social Science, 112. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103521

Article

Sovacool, B., AbdulRafiu, A., Hudson, M., McManus, M., Korre, A., Marr, I., . . . Maroto-Valer, M. M. (2024). Beyond the factory: ten interdisciplinary lessons for industrial decarbonisation practice and policy. Energy Reports, 11, 5935-5946. doi:10.1016/j.egyr.2024.05.048

Other

Sovacool, B. K., Carley, S., & Kiesling, L. (2024). Energy justice beyond the wire: Exploring the multidimensional inequities of the electrical power grid in the United States. In Energy Research and Social Science (Vol. 111). doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103474

Article

Monyei, C. G., Upham, P., & Sovacool, B. K. (2024). Micro-stories and the lived experience of transport poverty: Lessons from Iceland for just mobility transitions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 196. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2024.114345

Article

Sovacool, B., Baum, C. M., Low, S., & Fritz, L. (2024). The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal. Environmental Science and Policy, 155, 103730. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103730

Article

Sovacool, B., Del Rio, D. F., Herman, K., Iskandarova, M., Uratani, J. M., & Griffiths, S. (2024). Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges. Energy and Environmental Science, 17(10), 3523-3569. doi:10.1039/d3ee03270a

Article

Sovacool, B., Iskandarova, M., & Geels, F. W. (2024). Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022). Industrial and Corporate Change, pages. doi:10.1093/icc/dtae015

Article

Minx, J. C., Hilaire, J., Müller-Hansen, F., Nemet, G., Diluiso, F., Andrew, R. M., . . . Wiseman, J. (2024). Coal transitions—part 2: phase-out dynamics in global long-term mitigation scenarios. Environmental Research Letters, 19(3), 033002. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad24cd

Preprint

Herman, K. S., & Sovacool, B. K. (n.d.). Applying the Multi-Level Perspective to climate geoengineering: Sociotechnical bottlenecks for negative emissions and cloud seeding technologies. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4838813