D. V. van Vuuren

The impact of financing cost differences on global energy and industry decarbonization

Integrated assessment models usually neglect differences in financing conditions across countries, sectors and time. This omission could distort outcomes concerning electricity generation and also other sectors. Here we estimate and implement dynamic, country-specific cost of capital (CoC) for eight energy and indust...

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

Sector-detailed urban greenhouse gas emission futures derived from the ScenarioMIP-CMIP7 ensemble

Emission reductions required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement have been extensively analyzed using integrated assessment modeling scenarios. However, the contribution of urban areas in aggregate, globally, by region and by city type, remains underexplored. Here, we develop a spatially explicit framework to do...

Emission pathways consitent with 2C global temperature limit

Diversity of circular economies from Global South evidence

The circular economy (CE) is widely viewed as a key global lever for sustainable resource use. However, CE conceptualizations have focused mostly on high resource use in the Global North, largely neglecting the drivers, solutions and enablers of circularity in the socio-economic contexts of the Global South. Here, ba...