Mitigation

Cheng, Jing, Dan Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Ruochong Xu, Yue Qin, Qiang Zhang, Karan Bhuwalka, Ken Caldeira, and Steven Davis. “Trade Risks to Energy Security in Net-Zero Emissions Energy Scenarios”, Nature Climate Change, April 9, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02305-1.

Seibel, Shane, Richard Luarkie, Daniel Cardenas, Cody Mayer, Ramon Sanchez, Matt Dannenberg, Bazile Panek, Albert Bond, Zane Gordon, Demi Morishige, Kourtney Hadrick, Graham Stahnk, Robert Fofrich, Steven Davis, Richard Tallman, Brooke Bowser, and Morgan Bazilian. “A Path to US Tribal Energy Sovereignty”, Science, 387 (January 17, 2025): 372. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt7820.

Roijen, Elisabeth, Sabbie Miller, and Steven Davis. “Building Materials Could Store More Than 16 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Annually”, Science, 387, no. 6730 (January 10, 2025): 176-82. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq85.

Wynes, Seth, Steven Davis, Mitchell Dickau, Susan Ly, Edward Maibach, Joeri Rogelj, Kirsten Zickfeld, and H. Matthews. “Perceptions of Carbon Dioxide Emission Reductions and Future Warming Among Climate Experts”, Communications Earth & Environment, 5, no. 1 (September 12, 2024): 498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01661-8.

Jackson, Robert, Marielle Saunois, A. Martinez, Josep Canadell, X. Yu, M. Li, Ben Poulter, Peter Raymond, P. Regnier, Philippe Ciais, Steven Davis, and P. Patra. “Human Activities Now Fuel Two-Thirds of Global Methane Emissions”, Environmental Research Letters, 19 (September 10, 2024): 101002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad6463.

Cheng, Jing, Dan Tong, Yang Liu, Guannan Geng, Steven Davis, Kebin He, and Qiang Zhang. “A Synergistic Approach to Air Pollution Control and Carbon Neutrality in China Can Avoid Millions of Premature Deaths Annually by 2060”, One Earth, 6, no. 8 (August 18, 2023): 978-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.07.007.

Tong, Dan, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang, Jing Cheng, Xinying Qin, Chaopeng Hong, Kebin He, and Steven Davis. “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Depend on Strategic Power Plant Retirements and Pollution Controls”, Nature Climate Change, 11 (November 29, 2021): 1077-83. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01216-1.

DeAngelo, Julianne, Inês Azevedo, John Bistline, Leon Clarke, Gunnar Luderer, Edward Byers, and Steven Davis. “Energy Systems in Scenarios at Net-Zero CO2 Emissions”, Nature Communications, 12 (October 20, 2021): 6096. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26356-y.

Fennell, Paul, Steven Davis, and Aseel Mohammed. “Decarbonizing Cement Production”, Joule, 5, no. 6 (June 15, 2021): 1305-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.04.011.

Cheng, Jing, Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang, Yang Liu, Yu Lei, Gang Yan, Liu Yan, Sha Yu, Ryna Cui, Leon Clarke, Guannan Geng, Bo Zheng, Xiaoye Zhang, Steven Davis, and Kebin He. “Pathways of China’s PM2.5 Air Quality 2015–2060 in the Context of Carbon Neutrality ”, National Science Review, 8, no. 12 (April 29, 2021): nwab078. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab078.

Ayompe, Lacour, Steven Davis, and Benis Egoh. “Trends and Drivers of African Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions 1990–2017”, Environmental Research Letters, 15 (February 22, 2021): 124039. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc64f.

Liu, Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng, Ruixue Lei, Steven Davis, Sha Feng, Bo Zheng, Duo Cui, Xinyu Dou, Biqing Zhu, Rui Guo, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Chenxi Lu, Pan He, Yuan Wang, Xu Yue, Yilong Wang, Yadong Lei, Hao Zhao, Zhaonan Cai, Yuhui Wu, Runtao Guo, Tingxuan Han, Daniel Kammen, Kebin He, and Hans Schellnhuber. “Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Global CO2 Emissions Reveals the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Nature Communications, 11 (October 14, 2020): 5172. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18922-7.

Shearer, Christine, Dan Tong, Robert Fofrich, and Steven Davis. “Committed Emissions of the U.S. Power Sector, 2000–2018”, AGU Advances, 1, no. 3 (September 3, 2020): e2020AV000162. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000162.

Fofrich, Robert, Dan Tong, Katherine Calvin, Harmen De Boer, Johannes Emmerling, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, Gunnar Luderer, Joeri Rogelj, and Steven Davis. “Early Retirement of Power Plants in Climate Mitigation Scenarios”, Environmental Research Letters, 15 (August 27, 2020): 094064. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab96d3.

Dowling, Jacqueline, Katherine Rinaldi, Tyler Ruggles, Steven Davis, Mengyao Yuan, Fan Tong, Nathan Lewis, and Ken Caldeira. “Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems”, Joule, 4, no. 9 (August 6, 2020): 1907-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.07.007.

Zheng, Yixuan, Steven Davis, Geeta Persad, and Ken Caldeira. “Climate Effects of Aerosols Reduce Economic Inequality”, Nature Climate Change, 10 (February 17, 2020): 220-24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0699-y.

Tong, Dan, Qiang Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Ken Caldeira, Christine Shearer, Chaopeng Hong, Yue Qin, and Steven Davis. “Committed Emissions from Existing Energy Infrastructure Jeopardize 1.5 °C Climate Target”, Nature, 572 (July 1, 2019): 373-77. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1364-3.

Davis, Steven, Nathan Lewis, Matthew Shaner, Sonia Aggarwal, Doug Arent, Inês Azevedo, Sally Benson, Thomas Bradley, Jack Brouwer, Yet-Ming Chiang, Christopher Clack, Armond Cohen, Stephen Doig, Jae Edmonds, Paul Fennell, Christopher Field, Bryan Hannegan, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Martin Hoffert, Eric Ingersoll, Paulina Jaramillo, Klaus Lackner, Katharine Mach, Michael Mastrandrea, Joan Ogden, Per Peterson, Daniel Sanchez, Daniel Sperling, Joseph Stagner, Jessika Trancik, Chi-Jen Yang, and Ken Caldeira. “Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems”, Science, 360, no. 6396 (June 29, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aas97.

Meng, Jing, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li, Shu Tao, Yuan Li, Kuishuang Feng, Junfeng Liu, Zhu Liu, Xuejun Wang, Qiang Zhang, and Steven Davis. “The Rise of South–South Trade and Its Effect on Global CO2 Emissions”, Nature Communications, 9 (May 14, 2018): 1871. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04337-y.

Shearer, Christine, Robert Fofrich, and Steven Davis. “Future CO2 Emissions and Electricity Generation from Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants in India”, Earth’s Future, 5, no. 4 (March 21, 2017): 408-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017EF000542.