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Oswald et al., Nature Energy, vol.5 pp.231-239, March 2020.
Large inequality in international and intranational energy footprints between income groups and across consumption categories
Inequality in energy consumption, both direct and indirect, affects the distribution of benefits that result from energy use. Here we calculate final energy footprints; that is, the energy embodied in goods and services across income classes in 86 countries, both highly industrialized and developing. We find that inequality in the distribution of energy footprints varies across different goods and services. Our results consequently expose large inequality in international energy footprints: the consumption share of the bottom half of the population is less than 20% of final energy footprints, which in turn is less than what the top 5% consume.
Pehl et al., Nature Energy, vol.2 pp.939-945, 2017.
Understanding future emissions from low-carbon power systems by integration of life-cycle assessment and integrated energy modelling
Both fossil-fuel and non-fossil-fuel power technologies induce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to their embodied energy requirements for construction and operation, and upstream CH4 emissions. Here, we integrate prospective life-cycle assessment with global integrated energy–economy–land-use–climate modelling to explore life-cycle emissions of future low-carbon power supply systems and implications for technology choice... We find that cumulative emissions attributable to upscaling low-carbon power other than hydropower are small compared with direct sectoral fossil fuel emissions and the total carbon budget. Fully considering life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions has only modest effects on the scale and structure of power production in cost-optimal mitigation scenarios.
