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View article: Divergent Patterns in Wind Power Project Cost Overruns: How Scale Matters and Determinants of Construction Risk
Divergent Patterns in Wind Power Project Cost Overruns: How Scale Matters and Determinants of Construction Risk Open
This study analyzes cost overruns in 80 wind power projects, focusing on the impact of configuration types and their interaction effects with other project characteristics. Using multiple regression analyses, including interaction terms an…
View article: Beyond environmental identity: Testing public support for novel carbon dioxide removal in Australia using structural modelling
Beyond environmental identity: Testing public support for novel carbon dioxide removal in Australia using structural modelling Open
Climate change presents a significant environmental challenge, and novel carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies are increasingly recognised as critical strategies for mitigation. Although many of these technologies are still under devel…
View article: Why transparency matters for sustainable data centers and carbon-neutral artificial intelligence (AI)
Why transparency matters for sustainable data centers and carbon-neutral artificial intelligence (AI) Open
As artificial intelligence (AI) applications demand substantial computational power, their energy consumption and the attendant carbon footprint of data centers are accelerating at an alarming rate. Due to increasing demand, data centers c…
View article: Community-based research supports more just and equitable industrial decarbonization
Community-based research supports more just and equitable industrial decarbonization Open
Industrial decarbonization refers to the removal or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, process emissions, or embodied carbon from industry. Building from our experiences working with communities contemplating industrial decarbonization…
View article: Navigating reconfiguration and systems disruption: Decarbonization pathways for UK industrial clusters
Navigating reconfiguration and systems disruption: Decarbonization pathways for UK industrial clusters Open
Industrial decarbonization is not a linear transition but a contested process of meta-system transformation, shaped by the interplay of system reconfiguration and system disruption. While reconfiguration involves modular adaptations, compo…
View article: Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes
Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes Open
In addition to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, alternate strategies to mitigate climate change are entering the policy debate, such as Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), which aims to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Despite being in …
View article: A novel model for barriers to electric vehicle adoption in the Middle East
A novel model for barriers to electric vehicle adoption in the Middle East Open
This study presents the first large-scale, representative survey to assess consumer preferences for electric vehicles (EVs) in the Middle East. Leveraging a large-scale data collection of more than 5,000 United Arab Emirates (UAE) responde…
View article: Breaking Barriers with Patterns: New Tools for Integrating Distributional Justice into Global Mitigation Scenarios
Breaking Barriers with Patterns: New Tools for Integrating Distributional Justice into Global Mitigation Scenarios Open
Global mitigation scenarios allocate resources in ways that align with specific climate targets under varying assumptions. These allocations inevitably raise questions of distributional justice. With scenarios becoming a major tool for glo…
View article: A new hope or phantom menace? Exploring climate emotions and public support for climate interventions across 30 countries
A new hope or phantom menace? Exploring climate emotions and public support for climate interventions across 30 countries Open
Emotions are central to human experiences of climate change. Empirical research demonstrates their importance for climate perceptions and climate‐related behaviors. The intensifying severity of climate change prompts consideration of emerg…
View article: The sociotechnical barriers to the decarbonization of buildings
The sociotechnical barriers to the decarbonization of buildings Open
Building decarbonization is critical for meeting long-term climate goals, given the embodied energy, material and resource flows involved in making buildings, operational energy use, and the need to both build new facilities to meet growin…
View article: The “Future of Energy”? Building resilience to ExxonMobil’s disinformation through disclosures and inoculation
The “Future of Energy”? Building resilience to ExxonMobil’s disinformation through disclosures and inoculation Open
Disinformation campaigns can significantly impact beliefs about climate change. This study involved an online experiment with 1045 U.S. participants, exposing them to a misleading ExxonMobil advertisement, some with disclosures and others …
View article: Expert perspectives on incorporating justice considerations into integrated assessment modelling
Expert perspectives on incorporating justice considerations into integrated assessment modelling Open
There is growing criticism aimed towards global integrated assessment models (IAMs) and an ongoing academic debate on how justice considerations can be incorporated in those models. By relying on 39 interviews with a multidisciplinary grou…
View article: Plausibility, Acceptability, and Trustworthiness: The Resonance of Shale Gas Frames in the United Kingdom
Plausibility, Acceptability, and Trustworthiness: The Resonance of Shale Gas Frames in the United Kingdom Open
We employ a mixed-method research design to assess the resonance of key frames used in the UK policy debate over shale gas development amongst two distinct public audiences. We elaborate a conceptual framework drawn from argumentative disc…
View article: Bridging the gap between defossilization and decarbonization to achieve net-zero industry
Bridging the gap between defossilization and decarbonization to achieve net-zero industry Open
This paper examines the compatibility of broad decarbonization efforts, as embodied in the circular carbon economy (CCE) framework, with a narrower concept of defossilization in achieving net-zero industry. Through case studies of the Unit…
View article: "It's kind of just another factory:" A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio
"It's kind of just another factory:" A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio Open
Political ecology has been slow to examine solar panel factories, even though manufacturing lower-carbon technologies sits at the crossroads of climate change mitigation and global markets. Influenced by environmental and energy justice, t…