Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions

Felix Creutzig; Sofia G. Simoes; Sina Leipold; Peter Berrill; Isabel Azevedo; Oreane Edelenbosch; Tomer Fishman; Helmut Haberl; Edgar Hertwich; Volker Krey; Ana Teresa Lima; Tamar Makov; Alessio Mastrucci; Nikola Milojevic-Dupont; Florian Nachtigall; Stefan Pauliuk; Mafalda Silva; Elena Verdolini; Detlef van Vuuren; Felix Wagner; Dominik Wiedenhofer; Charlie Wilson

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02016-z

Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions

Felix Creutzig, Sofia G. Simoes, Sina Leipold, Peter Berrill, Isabel Azevedo, Oreane Edelenbosch, Tomer Fishman, Helmut Haberl, Edgar Hertwich, Volker Krey, Ana Teresa Lima, Tamar Makov, Alessio Mastrucci, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Florian Nachtigall, Stefan Pauliuk, Mafalda Silva, Elena Verdolini, Detlef van Vuuren, Felix WagnerDominik Wiedenhofer, Charlie Wilson

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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As fossil fuels are phased out in favour of renewable energy, electric cars and other low-carbon technologies, the future clean energy system is likely to require less overall mining than the current fossil-fuelled system. However, material extraction and waste flows, new infrastructure development, land-use change, and the provision of new types of goods and services associated with decarbonization will produce social and environmental pressures at localized to regional scales. Demand-side solutions can achieve the important outcome of reducing both the scale of the climate challenge and material resource requirements. Interdisciplinary systems modelling and analysis are needed to identify opportunities and trade-offs for demand-led mitigation strategies that explicitly consider planetary boundaries associated with Earth’s material resources.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	561-572
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	14
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02016-z
State	Published - 1 Jun 2024

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Creutzig, F., Simoes, S. G., Leipold, S., Berrill, P., Azevedo, I., Edelenbosch, O., Fishman, T., Haberl, H., Hertwich, E., Krey, V., Lima, A. T., Makov, T., Mastrucci, A., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., Pauliuk, S., Silva, M., Verdolini, E., van Vuuren, D., ... Wilson, C. (2024). Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions. Nature Climate Change, 14(6), 561-572. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02016-z

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