Publications · Sustainable Solutions Lab

Environmental Science & Technology · 2026

Global Combustion CO₂ Accounting Neglects the Origin of Traded Fossil Fuels

Binyuan Liu, Yuli Shan, Yuru Guan, Steven J Davis, Ye Hang, Liang Jing, Xiande Ji, Wenqiang Wang, Klaus Hubacek

Nature Climate Change · 2026

Flash energy droughts in solar and wind resources under climate change

Yuanyuan Lin, Dongsheng Zheng, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Zhicong Yin, Kebin He, Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang

FEATURED · Nature Biotechnology · 2026

Engineered bacterial siderophore production accelerates rock weathering for carbon removal

Neil C. Dalvie, Amogh P. Jalihal, Abigail Fitzgibbon, Jan-Tobias Böhnke, Mohammed Hijaz, Quincey A. Justman, Steven J. Davis, Pamela A. Silver, Michael Spring

We show that bioengineered marine bacteria can dissolve olivine 2.6x faster, creating alkalinity that pulls carbon dioxide from air. But in the pilot testing climate benefits are largely offset by the additional nutrients required.

Engineered bacterial siderophore production accelerates rock weathering for carbon removal

FEATURED · Nature Climate Change · 2026 · ENERGY · HEALTH · CLIMATE · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution

Candelaria Bergero, Jing Cheng, Qiang Zhang, Yang Ou, Haewon McJeon, Morgan R. Edwards, Destenie Nock, Inês Azevedo, Steven J. Davis

Limiting carbon dioxide removal (CDR) leaves lower residual co-pollutant emissions and so avoids more PM₂.₅-related deaths--disproportionately benefiting non-white and low-income communities, implying that—absent deliberate transition planning—large-scale CDR deployment could undercut the equitable distribution of the health co-benefits of decarbonization.

Companion tool: Air pollution at net-zero

Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution

FEATURED · Science · 2026 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Assessing the net climate benefit of improved grazing intensity in global rangelands

Robert S. Powell, Steven J. Davis, David G. Encarnation, Johannes Piippoonen, Jinfeng Chang, Courney M. Currier, Karl-Heinz Erb, Samuel Eze, Chaopeng Hong, Pierre Ploton, Shuai Ren, Pete Smith, Jishuai Su, Giuseppe Tempio, Cesar Terrer, Dominik Wisser, Fengwei Xu, Adam F.A. Pellegrini

FEATURED · Nature · 2026 · CLIMATE · WATER · IMPACTS

Forest carbon protocols underestimate climate-driven carbon loss risks

Chao Wu, Grayson Badgley, Michael L. Goulden, James T. Randerson, Anna T. Trugman, Jonathan A. Wang, Linqing Yang, Nezha Acil, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Danny Cullenward, Steven J. Davis, Christopher A. Williams, William R. L. Anderegg

Existing buffer pools in U.S. forest climate mitigation projects are too small by an average factor of 6.3 to protect against reversal risks of natural disturbances like drought, pests, and fire.

Forest carbon protocols underestimate climate-driven carbon loss risks

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2026 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

China’s net-zero budget

Zhu Liu, Piyu Ke, Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Robbie Andrew, Ana Bastos, Yan Bai, Josep G. Canadell, Dabo Guan, Xinyu Dou, Steven J. Davis, Fan Dai, Pierre Friedlingstein, Xiaoting Huang, Yifan Hu, Robert B. Jackson, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Matthew W. Jones, Daniel M. Kammen, Yun Li, Tao Li, Shunlin Liang, Laibao Liu, Benjamin Poulter, Glen P. Peters, Stephen Sitch, Lixing Wang, Wei Wei, Fengming Xi, Xiaofan Gui, Jiang Bian, Yuan Wang, Jinjun Xue, Jinyue Yan, Xu Yue, Ning Zhang, Xian Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yonglong Lu, Hans J. Schellnhuber, Xiaoye Zhang, Minhan Dai, Peng Gong, Kebin He, Guangqian Wang

Environmental Research: Energy · 2026 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Supplying process heat using concentrated solar thermal energy with molten salt storage

Alicia Wongel, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Gerhard Weinrebe, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026 · FOOD · ENERGY · MITIGATION

The effect of land costs on the economic and sustainability performance of solar photovoltaics in China

Shi Chen, Xi Lu, Jiming Hao, Edgar Virgüez, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis

Scientific Data · 2026 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Global daily CO₂ emissions from 1970 to 2024

Tao Li, Lixing Wang, Zihan Qiu, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Deng, Yufei Zhao, Glen P. Peters, Piyu Ke, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Ye Hao, Taochun Sun, Xiaoting Huang, Robert B. Jackson, Pierre Friedlingstein, Chenxi Lu, Duo Cui, Zhu Liu

Energy and Climate Change · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Defining ‘abated’ fossil fuel and industrial process emissions

Christopher Bataille, Heleen D. Coninck, Kiane D. Kleijne, Lars J. Nilsson, Igor Bashmakov, Steven J. Davis, Paul S. Fennell

Advances in Applied Energy · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Variability of technology learning rates

Angelo Carlino, Alicia Wongel, Lei Duan, Edgar Virgüez, Steven J. Davis, Morgan R. Edwards, Ken Caldeira

FEATURED · Nature Communications · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

The importance of multiregional accounting for corporate carbon emissions

Steven J. Davis, Andrew Dumit, Mo Li, Yohanna Maldonado, Michael Steffen, Martha Stevenson, Tatiana Boldyreva, Sangwon Suh

Using single-region models underestimates corporate supply chain emissions by roughly 10%, or 2.0 gigatons CO₂-equivalent annually.

The importance of multiregional accounting for corporate carbon emissions

Nature Sustainability · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Ownership of power plants stranded by climate mitigation

Robert Fofrich Navarro, Lauren Liebermann, Frances C. Moore, Christine Shearer, Steven J. Davis

Brief

Nature Sustainability · 2025 · WATER · ENERGY · IMPACTS

Balancing thermal power decarbonization and energy security under hydroclimatic risks

Shiyu Li, Junguo Liu, Gang Yan, Steven J. Davis, Amir AghaKouchak, Xin Liu, Chaopeng Hong, Yixuan Zheng, Qingsong Jiang, Yong Liu, Yue Qin

Nature Sustainability · 2025 · WATER · ENERGY · IMPACTS

Global hydroclimatic risks and strategic decommissioning pathways for thermal power units

Shiyu Li, Yong Liu, Junguo Liu, Gang Yan, Hannes M. Schmied, Steven J. Davis, Amir AghaKouchak, Niko Wanders, Qingsong Jiang, Yixuan Zheng, Joyce Bosmans, Xin Liu, Chaopeng Hong, Yue Qin

Nature · 2025 · CLIMATE · ENERGY · MITIGATION

The global hydrogen budget

Zutao Ouyang, Robert B. Jackson, Marielle Saunois, Josep G. Canadell, Yuanhong Zhao, Catherine Morfopoulos, Paul B. Krummel, Prabir K. Patra, Glen P. Peters, Fraser Dennison, Thomas Gasser, Alexander T. Archibald, Vivek Arora, Gabriel Baudoin, Naveen Chandra, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Sarah Feron, Fangzhou Guo, Didier Hauglustaine, Christopher D. Jones, Matthew W. Jones, Etsushi Kato, Daniel Kennedy, Jürgen Knauer, Sebastian Lienert, Danica Lombardozzi, Joe R. Melton, Julia E. Nabel, Michael O’Sullivan, Gabrielle Pétron, Benjamin Poulter, Joeri Rogelj, David Sandoval Calle, Pete Smith, Parvadha Suntharalingam, Hanqin Tian, Chenghao Wang, Andy Wiltshire

FEATURED · Environmental Research Letters · 2025 · HEALTH · IMPACTS

Economic development, air conditioning and adaptation to warming

Alicia Wongel, Lyssa M. Freese, Edgar Virgüez, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira

Lower-income countries face the largest gap between extreme heat exposure and air conditioning access, widening as temperatures rise.

Brief

Economic development, air conditioning and adaptation to warming

Scientific Data · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

A near-real time daily European Power Consumption and Carbon Intensity Dataset (ECON-PowerCI)

Shujie Zhang, Wenli Zhao, Biqing Zhu, Chunhua Yan, Xuanren Song, Hou Jiang, Jianing Fang, Philippe Ciais, Ning Xuan, Pierre Gentine, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Guo Y. Qiu

One Earth · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Cost-competitive plant-by-plant strategy for spatially resolved CCUS deployment toward carbon neutrality in global key industries

Xizhe Yan, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Yu Liu, Wei Li, Huaxuan Wang, Dongsheng Zheng, Yaqin Guo, Yang Liu, Ruochong Xu, Xinying Qin, Yujia Fu, Qingyang Xiao, Qiang Zhang

Nature · 2025 · HEALTH · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Long-range PM₂.₅ pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

Qiang Zhang, Yuexuanzi Wang, Qingyang Xiao, Guannan Geng, Steven J. Davis, Xiaodong Liu, Jin Yang, Jiajun Liu, Wenyu Huang, Changpei He, Binhe Luo, Randall V. Martin, Michael Brauer, James T. Randerson, Kebin He

2025 114 cites 2026

Scientific Data · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Harmonized Annual Averaged Traffic Data at Street Segment Level for European Cities

Xavier Bonnemaizon, Philippe Ciais, Chuanlong Zhou, Qinren Shi, Rohith T. Mittakola, Clément Goldmann, Simon Ben Arous, Nicolas Megel, Steven J. Davis

Nature Geoscience · 2025 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Large CO₂ removal potential of woody debris preservation in managed forests

Yiqi Luo, Ning Wei, Xingjie Lu, Yu Zhou, Feng Tao, Quan Quan, Cuijuan Liao, Lifen Jiang, Jianyang Xia, Yuanyuan Huang, Shuli Niu, Xiangtao Xu, Ying Sun, Ning Zeng, Charles Koven, Liqing Peng, Steven J. Davis, Pete Smith, Fengqi You, Yu Jiang, Lailiang Cheng, Benjamin Houlton

Earth System Science Data · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Europe's adaptation to the energy crisis: reshaped gas supply–transmission–consumption structures and driving factors from 2022 to 2024

Chuanlong Zhou, Biqing Zhu, Antoine Halff, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Simon Bowring, Simon B. Arous, Philippe Ciais

Nature · 2025 · ENERGY · CLIMATE · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Strategies for climate-resilient global wind and solar power systems

Dongsheng Zheng, Xizhe Yan, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira, Yuanyuan Lin, Yaqin Guo, Jingyun Li, Peng Wang, Liying Ping, Shijie Feng, Yang Liu, Jing Cheng, Deliang Chen, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang

2025 102 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Drivers of CO₂ emissions from road transport in U.S. urban areas

Xavier Bonnemaizon, Philippe Ciais, Chuanlong Zhou, Simon Ben Arous, Nicolas Megel, Gunnar Berghaüser, Steven J. Davis

Nature Communications · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Globally interconnected solar-wind system addresses future electricity demands.

Hou Jiang, Ling Yao, Jun Qin, Yongqing Bai, Martin Brandt, Xu Lian, Steven J. Davis, Ning Lu, Wenli Zhao, Tang Liu, Chenghu Zhou

FEATURED · Nature Climate Change · 2025 · MATERIALS · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios

Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Ruochong Xu, Yue Qin, Qiang Zhang, Karan Bhuwalka, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis

In most countries, there are less trade risks to energy security when decarbonizing. Less dependence on fossil fuel imports, but more on critical minerals.

2025 31 cites 2026

Brief

Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2024

Zhu Deng, Biqing Zhu, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais, Dabo Guan, Peng Gong, Zhu Liu

2025 271 cites 2026

Environmental Research: Food Systems · 2025 · WATER · FOOD · IMPACTS

Historical trends in snowmelt used for irrigation

Eva Kinnebrew, Lindsey L. Sloat, Yue Qin, Steven J. Davis, John T. Abatzoglou, Stefan Siebert, Nathaniel D. Mueller

One Earth · 2025 · FOOD · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security

Shouxiu Li, Yang Gao, Junxi Zhang, Chaopeng Hong, Shaoqing Zhang, Deliang Chen, Oliver Wild, Zhaozhong Feng, Yansen Xu, Xiuwen Guo, Wenbin Kou, Feifan Yan, Mingchen Ma, Xiaohong Yao, Huiwang Gao, Steven J. Davis

FEATURED · Science · 2025 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually

Elisabeth van Roijen, Sabbie A. Miller, Steven J. Davis

Replacing conventional building materials with carbon-storing alternatives could sequester >16 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually, half of current emissions.

2024 132 cites 2026

Building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually

Science · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

A path to US Tribal energy sovereignty

Shane Seibel, Richard Luarkie, Daniel Cardenas, Cody Mayer, Ramon Sanchez, Matt Dannenberg, Bazile M. Panek, Albert Bond, Zane Gordon, Demi Morishige, Kourtney Hadrick, Graham Stahnke, Robert Fofrich, Steve Davis, Richard Tallman, Brooke Bowser, Morgan D. Bazilian

National Science Review · 2025 · ENERGY · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Unraveling climate change-induced compound low-solar-low-wind extremes in China

Licheng Wang, Yawen Liu, Lei Zhao, Xi Lu, Liangdian Huang, Yana Jin, Steven J. Davis, Amir Aghakouchak, Xin Huang, Tong Zhu, Yue Qin

ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering · 2024 · WATER · IMPACTS

Quantifying Social Inequalities in Flood Risk

Brett F. Sanders, David Brady, Jochen E. Schubert, Eva-Marie H. Martin, Steven J. Davis, Katharine J. Mach

Joule · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Uses and limits of national decarbonization scenarios to inform net-zero transitions

John Bistline, Morgan Browning, Julianne DeAngelo, Daniel Huppmann, Ryan Jones, James McFarland, Anahi Molar-Cruz, Steven Rose, Steven J. Davis

Environmental Research Letters · 2024 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Human activities now fuel two-thirds of global methane emissions

Robert B. Jackson, Marielle Saunois, Adrien Martinez, Josep G. Canadell, Xueying Yu, Mengze Li, Ben Poulter, Pete A Raymond, Pierre Regnier, Philippe Ciais, Steven J Davis, Prabir K Patra

2024 111 cites 2026

Advances in Applied Energy · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Planning reliable wind-and solar-based electricity systems

Tyler H. Ruggles, Edgar Virgüez, Natasha Reich, Jacqueline Dowling, Hannah Bloomfield, Enrico G. Antonini, Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira

Communications Earth & Environment · 2024 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Perceptions of carbon dioxide emission reductions and future warming among climate experts

Seth Wynes, Steven J. Davis, Mitchell Dickau, Susan Ly, Edward Maibach, Joeri Rogelj, Kirsten Zickfeld, H. Damon Matthews

Environmental Science & Technology · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

International Trade Reshapes the Decoupling of Emissions from Economic Growth

Shaojian Wang, Jieyu Wang, Chuanglin Fang, Xiangjie Chen, Junyi Liang, Yu Liu, Shuang Gao, Klaus Hubacek, Xiaoping Liu, Chunshan Zhou, Yuli Shan, Kuishuang Feng, Zhu Liu, Chaopeng Hong, Steven J. Davis

Environmental Research: Energy · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Opportunities and constraints of hydrogen energy storage systems

Jacqueline A. Dowling, Tyler H. Ruggles, Edgar A. Virgüez, Natasha D. Reich, Zachary P. Ifkovits, Steven J. Davis, Anna X. Li, Kathleen M. Kennedy, Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Lei Duan, Ken Caldeira, Nathan S. Lewis

Nature Communications · 2024 · ENERGY · CLIMATE · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Climate change impacts on the extreme power shortage events of wind-solar supply systems worldwide during 1980–2022

Dongsheng Zheng, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Yue Qin, Yang Liu, Ruochong Xu, Jin Yang, Xizhe Yan, Guannan Geng, Huizheng Che, Qiang Zhang

2024 117 cites 2026

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Scaling traffic variables from sensors sample to the entire city at high spatiotemporal resolution with machine learning: applications to the Paris megacity

Xavier Bonnemaizon, Philippe Ciais, Chuanlong Zhou, Simon Ben-Arous, Steven J. Davis, Nicolas Megel

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Global carbon emissions in 2023

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais

2023 484 cites 2026

Science Advances · 2024 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Drivers of natural gas use in U.S. residential buildings

Rohith T. Mittakola, Philippe Ciais, Jochen E. Schubert, David Makowski, Chuanlong Zhou, Hassan Bazzi, Taochun Sun, Zhu Liu, Steven J. Davis

National Science Review · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

The global mismatch between equitable carbon dioxide removal liability and capacity

Pu Yang, Zhifu Mi, Yi-Ming Wei, Steef V. Hanssen, Lan-Cui Liu, D’Maris Coffman, Xinlu Sun, Hua Liao, Yun-Fei Yao, Jia-Ning Kang, Peng-Tao Wang, Steven J. Davis

Communications Earth & Environment · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Reliance on fossil fuels increases during extreme temperature events in the continental United States

Wenli Zhao, Biqing Zhu, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais, Chaopeng Hong, Zhu Liu, Pierre Gentine

FEATURED · Nature Sustainability · 2023 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Food without agriculture

Steven J. Davis, Kathleen Alexander, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Chaopeng Hong, Matthew Shaner, Ken Caldeira, Ian McKay

Synthesizing dietary fats chemically could cut greenhouse gas emissions by over half compared to conventional palm oil production.

2023 37 cites 2026

Brief

Nature Climate Change · 2023 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry

Ruochong Xu, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Xinying Qin, Jing Cheng, Qinren Shi, Yang Liu, Cuihong Chen, Liu Yan, Xizhe Yan, Huaxuan Wang, Dongsheng Zheng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang

2023 127 cites 2026

Nature Reviews Earth and Environment · 2023 · WATER · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards

Amir AghaKouchak, Laurie S. Huning, Mojtaba Sadegh, Yue Qin, Yannis Markonis, Farshid Vahedifard, Charlotte A. Love, Ashok Mishra, Ali Mehran, Renee Obringer, Annika Hjelmstad, Shrideep Pallickara, Shakil Jiwa, Martin Hanel, Yunxia Zhao, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Mazdak Arabi, Steven J. Davis, Philip J. Ward, Mark Svoboda, Roger Pulwarty, Heidi Kreibich

2023 112 cites 2026

Nature · 2023 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California

Patrick T. Brown, Holt Hanley, Ankur Mahesh, Colorado Reed, Scott J. Strenfel, Steven J. Davis, Adam K. Kochanski, Craig B. Clements

2023 271 cites 2026

One Earth · 2023 · CLIMATE · HEALTH · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

A synergistic approach to air pollution control and carbon neutrality in China can avoid millions of premature deaths annually by 2060

Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Yang Liu, Guannan Geng, Steven J. Davis, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang

2024 153 cites 2026

Environmental Science & Policy · 2023 · ENERGY · HEALTH · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Environmental justice, infrastructure provisioning, and environmental impact assessment: Evidence from the California Environmental Quality Act

Jie Wang, Nicola Ulibarri, Tyler A. Scott, Steven J. Davis

Nature Food · 2023 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Rebound effects could offset more than half of avoided food loss and waste

Margaret Hegwood, Matthew G. Burgess, Erin M. Costigliolo, Pete Smith, Bojana Baj≈æelj, Harry Saunders, Steven J. Davis

Communications Earth & Environment · 2023 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Large global variations in the carbon dioxide removal potential of seaweed farming due to biophysical constraints

Isabella B. Arzeno-Soltero, Benjamin T. Saenz, Christina A. Frieder, Matthew C. Long, Julianne DeAngelo, Steven J. Davis, Kristen A. Davis

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Flight delays due to air pollution in China

Xiaoguang Chen, Luoye Chen, Wei Xie, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Steven J. Davis

Scientific Data · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

CarbonMonitor-Power near-real-time monitoring of global power generation on hourly to daily scales

Biqing Zhu, Zhu Deng, Xuanren Song, Wenli Zhao, Da Huo, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Duo Cui, Chenxi Lu, Haiwang Zhong, Chaopeng Hong, Jian Qiu, Steven J. Davis, Pierre Gentine, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Liu

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2022

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steve Davis, Philippe Ciais

2023 606 cites 2026

Science · 2023 · HEALTH · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Record-high CO₂ emissions from boreal fires in 2021

Bo Zheng, Philippe Ciais, Frederic Chevallier, Hui Yang, Josep G. Canadell, Yang Chen, Ivar R. V. D. Velde, Ilse Aben, Emilio Chivieco, Steven J. Davis, Merritt Deeter, Choapeng Hong, Yawen Kong, Haiyan Li, Hui Li, Xin Lin, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang

2022 373 cites 2026

In the news: Washington Post·CNN·New Scientist·Financial Times

Earth System Science Data · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Natural gas supply from Russia derived from daily pipeline flow data and potential solutions for filling a shortage of Russian supply in the European Union (EU)

Chuanlong Zhou, Biqing Zhu, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Antoine Halff, Simon B. Arous, Hugo D. A. Rodrigues, Philippe Ciais

Scientific Data · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Near-real-time global gridded daily CO₂ emissions 2021

Xinyu Dou, Jinpyo Hong, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Chevallier, Feifan Yan, Ying Yu, Yifan Hu, Da Huo, Yun Sun, Yilong Wang, Steven J. Davis, Monica Crippa, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Diego Guizzardi, Efisio Solazzo, Xiaojuan Lin, Xuanren Song, Biqing Zhu, Duo Cui, Piyu Ke, Hengqi Wang, Wenwen Zhou, Xia Huang, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu

Science · 2023 · HEALTH · IMPACTS

Smoke-weather interaction affects extreme wildfires in diverse coastal regions

Xin Huang, Ke Ding, Jingyi Liu, Zilin Wang, Rong Tang, Lian Xue, Haikun Wang, Qiang Zhang, Zhe-Min Tan, Congbin Fu, Steven J. Davis, Meinrat O. Andreae, Aijun Ding

2023 166 cites 2026

Science bulletin · 2023 · HEALTH · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

High downward surface solar radiation conducive to ozone pollution more frequent under global warming

Wenbin Kou, Yang Gao, Shaoqing Zhang, Wenju Cai, Guannan Geng, Steven J. Davis, Hong Wang, Xiuwen Guo, Wenxuan Cheng, Xinran Zeng, Mingchen Ma, Houwen Wang, Qiaoqiao Wang, Xiaohong Yao, Huiwang Gao, Lixin Wu

FEATURED · Nature Sustainability · 2023 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation

Candelaria Bergero, Greer Gosnell, Dolf Gielen, Seungwoo Kang, Morgan Bazilian, Steven J. Davis

Large-scale carbon management for SAFs and/or CDR will be required for aviation to meet climate goals.

2023 549 cites 2026

Brief

Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation

Nature sustainability · 2023 · WATER · IMPACTS

Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California

Brett F. Sanders, Jochen E. Schubert, Daniel T. Kahl, Katharine J. Mach, David Brady, Amir AghaKouchak, Fonna Forman, Richard A. Matthew, Nicola Ulibarri, Steven J. Davis

2023 177 cites 2026

Joule · 2023 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Future demand for electricity generation materials under different climate mitigation scenarios

Seaver Wang, Zeke Hausfather, Steven J. Davis, Juzel Lloyd, Erik B. Olson, Lauren Liebermann, Guido D. Núñez-Mujica, Jameson McBride

2023 181 cites 2026

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A · 2022 · WATER · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Status and prospects for drought forecasting: opportunities in artificial intelligence and hybrid physical–statistical forecasting

Amir AghaKouchak, Baoxiang Pan, Omid Mazdiyasni, Mojtaba Sadegh, Shakil Jiwa, Wenrui Zhang, Charlotee A Love, Shahrbanou Madadgar, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Steven J. Davis, Kuo-Lin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian

FEATURED · Nature Plants · 2022 · CLIMATE · FOOD · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Economic and biophysical limits to seaweed farming for climate change mitigation

Julianne DeAngelo, Benjamin T. Saenz, Isabella B. Arzeno-Soltero, Christina A. Frieder, Matthew C. Long, Joseph Hamman, Kristen A. Davis, Steven J. Davis

Seaweed farming for climate mitigation costs $480–beyond profitable levels—except when producing valuable products instead of sinking biomass.

2022 120 cites 2026

Brief

Economic and biophysical limits to seaweed farming for climate change mitigation

Nature Climate Change · 2022 · WATER · FOOD · IMPACTS

Snowmelt risk telecouplings for irrigated agriculture

Yue Qin, Chaopeng Hong, Hongyan Zhao, Stefan Siebert, John T. Abatzoglou, Laurie S. Huning, Lindsey L. Sloat, Sohyun Park, Shiyu Li, Darla K. Munroe, Tong Zhu, Steven J. Davis, Nathaniel D. Mueller

Nature Communications · 2022 · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Decarbonization will lead to more equitable air quality in California

Shupeng Zhu, Michael M. Kinnon, Andrea Carlos-Carlos, Steven J. Davis, Scott Samuelsen

Nature Geoscience · 2022 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Global patterns of daily CO₂ emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Biqing Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Jianguang Tan, Robbie M. Andrew, Olivier Boucher, Simon B. Arous, Josep G. Canadell, Xinyu Dou, Pierre Friedlingstein, Pierre Gentine, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Robert B. Jackson, Daniel M. Kammen, Piyu Ke, Corinne L. Quéré, Crippa Monica, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Glen P. Peters, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yilong Wang, Bo Zheng, Haiwang Zhong, Taochun Sun, Hans J. Schellnhuber

2021 152 cites 2026

One Earth · 2022 · MATERIALS · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Plant-level real-time monitoring data reveal substantial abatement potential of air pollution and CO₂ in China’s cement sector

Ling Tang, Jianhui Ruan, Xin Bo, Zhifu Mi, Shouyang Wang, Guangxia Dong, Steven J. Davis

Science · 2022 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Land-use emissions embodied in international trade

Chaopeng Hong, Hongyan Zhao, Yue Qin, Jennifer A. Burney, Julia Pongratz, Kerstin Hartung, Yu Liu, Frances C. Moore, Robert B. Jackson, Qiang Zhang, Steven J. Davis

2021 242 cites 2026

Brief

National Science Review · 2022 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Global mitigation efforts cannot neglect emerging emitters

Can Cui, Dabo Guan, Daoping Wang, Jing Meng, Vicky Chemutai, Paul Brenton, Shaohui Zhang, Yuli Shan, Qiang Zhang, Steven Davis

Earth System Science Data · 2022 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions

Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Zitely A. Tzompa-Sosa, Marielle Saunois, Chunjing Qiu, Chang Tan, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Yanan Cui, Katsumasa Tanaka, Xin Lin, Rona L. Thompson, Hanqin Tian, Yuanzhi Yao, Yuanyuan Huang, Ronny Lauerwald, Atul K. Jain, Xiaoming Xu, Ana Bastos, Stephen Sitch, Paul I. Palmer, Thomas Lauvaux, Alexandre d'Aspremont, Clément Giron, Antoine Benoit, Benjamin Poulter, Jinfeng Chang, Ana M. R. Petrescu, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Giacomo Grassi, Clément Albergel, Francesco N. Tubiello, Lucia Perugini, Wouter Peters, Frédéric Chevallier

2021 220 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2022 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Emissions rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic

Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Biqing Zhu, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Bo Zheng, Yilong Wang, Olivier Boucher, Pierre Gentine, Philippe Ciais

2021 123 cites 2026

Nature · 2022 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Cement and steel — nine steps to net zero

Paul Fennell, Justin Driver, Christopher Bataille, Steven J. Davis

2021 202 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2022 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Global fossil carbon emissions rebound to near pre-COVID-19 levels

Robert B. Jackson, Pierre Friedlingstein, Corinne LeQuéré, Sam Abernethy, Robbie M. Andrew, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu, Glen P. Peters

2022 128 cites 2026

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2022 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Clement Giron, Philippe Ciais

2022 667 cites 2026

The Lancet Planetary Health · 2022 · HEALTH · CLIMATE · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Role of climate goals and clean-air policies on reducing future air pollution deaths in China: a modelling study

Yang Liu, Dan Tong, Jing Cheng, Steven J. Davis, Sha Yu, Brinda Yarlagadda, Leon E. Clarke, Michael Brauer, Aaron J. Cohen, Haidong Kan, Tao Xue, Qiang Zhang

2022 137 cites 2026

MRS Bulletin · 2022 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Integration of energy systems

Douglas J. Arent, Clayton Barrows, Steven J. Davis, Gary Grim, Joshua Schaidle, Ben Kroposki, Mark Ruth, Brooke V. Zandt

Earth's Future · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Impact of lockdowns and winter temperatures on natural gas consumption in Europe

Philippe Ciais, François-Marie Bréon, Stijn Dellaert, Yilong Wang, Katsumasa Tanaka, Léna Gurriaran, Yann Françoise, steven J. davis, Chaopeng Hong, Josep Penuelas, Ivan Janssens, Michael Obersteiner, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu

The Innovation · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Near-real-time global gridded daily CO₂ emissions

Xinyu Dou, Yilong Wang, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Chevallier, Steven J. Davis, Monica Crippa, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Diego Guizzardi, Efisio Solazzo, Feifan Yan, Da Huo, Zheng Bo, Biqing Zhu, Duo Cui, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Hengqi Wang, Qiang Zhang, Pierre Gentine, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu

2022 118 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2021 · HEALTH · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls

Dan Tong, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang, Jing Cheng, Xinying Qin, Chaopeng Hong, Kebin He, Steven J. Davis

2022 140 cites 2026

Science Advances · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Regional impacts of COVID-19 on carbon dioxide detected worldwide from space

Brad Weir, David Crisp, Christopher W. O. Dell, Sourish Basu, Abhishek Chatterjee, Jana Kolassa, Tomohiro Oda, Steven Pawson, Benjamin Poulter, Zhen Zhang, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Lesley E. Ott

Nature Communications · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Energy systems in scenarios at net-zero CO₂ emissions

Julianne DeAngelo, Inês Azevedo, John Bistline, Leon Clarke, Gunnar Luderer, Edward Byers, Steven J. Davis

2021 317 cites 2026

Nature Communications · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power worldwide

Dan Tong, David J. Farnham, Lei Duan, Qiang Zhang, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis

2022 400 cites 2026

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda

Robert B. Jackson, Sam Abernethy, Josep G. Canadell, Matteo Cargnello, Steven J. Davis, Sarah Féron, Sabine Fuss, Alexander J. Heyer, Chaopeng Hong, Chris D. Jones, H D. Matthews, Fiona M. O'Connor, Maxwell Pisciotta, Hannah M. Rhoda, Renaud D. Richter, Edward I. Solomon, Jennifer L. Wilcox, Kirsten Zickfeld

2021 162 cites 2026

Energy and Climate Change · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Net-zero emissions energy systems: What we know and do not know

Inês Azevedo, Christopher Bataille, John Bistline, Leon Clarke, Steven Davis

2021 129 cites 2026

Nature Geoscience · 2021 · HEALTH · IMPACTS

Drivers of PM₂.₅ air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017

Guannan Geng, Yixuan Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Tao Xue, Hongyan Zhao, Dan Tong, Bo Zheng, Meng Li, Fei Liu, Chaopeng Hong, Kebin He, Steven J. Davis

2021 458 cites 2026

Applied Energy · 2021 · MATERIALS · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Environmental benefit-detriment thresholds for flow battery energy storage systems: A case study in California

Shan Tian, Haoyang He, Alissa Kendall, Steven J. Davis, Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Julie M. Schoenung, Scott Samuelsen

Environmental Research Letters · 2021 · HEALTH · IMPACTS

Drivers and projections of global surface temperature anomalies at the local scale

Susanne A. Benz, Steven J. Davis, Jennifer A. Burney

Nature Sustainability · 2021 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Effect of strengthened standards on Chinese ironmaking and steelmaking emissions

Xin Bo, Min Jia, Xiaoda Xue, Ling Tang, Zhifu Mi, Shouyang Wang, Weigeng Cui, Xiangyu Chang, Jianhui Ruan, Guangxia Dong, Beihai Zhou, Steven J. Davis

2021 144 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2021 · ENERGY · FOOD · MITIGATION

A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

William F. Lamb, Thomas Wiedmann, Julia Pongratz, Robbie Andrew, Monica Crippa, Jos G. J. Olivier, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Giulio Mattioli, Jo House, Shonali Pachauri, Maria Figueroa, Yamina Saheb, Raphael Slade, Klaus Hubacek, Laixiang Sun, Suzana K. Ribeiro, Smail Khennas, Stephane D. L. R. D. Can, Lazarus Chapungu, Steven J. Davis, Igor Bashmakov, Hancheng Dai, Shobhakar Dhakal, Xianchun Tan, Yong Geng, Baihe Gu, Jan Minx

2021 1,652 cites 2026

Joule · 2021 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Decarbonizing cement production

Paul S. Fennell, Steven J. Davis, Aseel Mohammed

2021 261 cites 2026

National Science Review · 2021 · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Pathways of China's PM₂.₅ air quality 2015–2060 in the context of carbon neutrality

Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang, Yang Liu, Yu Le, Gang Yan, Liu Yan, Sha Yu, Ryna Y. Cui, Leon Clarke, Guannan Geng, Bo Zheng, Xiaoye Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Kebin He

2021 409 cites 2026

Earth System Science Data · 2021 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Global CO₂ uptake by cement from 1930 to 2019

Rui Guo, Jiaoyue Wang, Longfei Bing, Dan Tong, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Robbie M. Andrew, Fengming Xi, Zhu Liu

2021 128 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2021 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Fossil CO₂ emissions in the post-COVID-19 era

Corinne L. Quéré, Glen P. Peters, Pierre Friedlingstein, Robbie M. Andrew, Josep G. Canadell, Steven J. Davis, Robert B. Jackson, Matthew W. Jones

2020 413 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2021 · WATER · FOOD · IMPACTS

The adaptive benefits of agricultural water markets in California

Jesus Arellano-Gonzalez, Amir AghaKouchak, Morgan C. Levy, Yue Qin, Jennifer A. Burney, Steven J. Davis, Frances C. Moore

Nature · 2021 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017

Chaopeng Hong, Jennifer A. Burney, Julia Pongratz, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Robert B. Jackson, Steven J. Davis

2021 670 cites 2026

Brief

Nature Sustainability · 2020 · HEALTH · IMPACTS

Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018

Daoping Wang, Dabo Guan, Shupeng Zhu, Michael M. Kinnon, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang, Heran Zheng, Tianyang Lei, Shuai Shao, Peng Gong, Steven J. Davis

2021 454 cites 2026

Brief

Scientific Data · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO₂ emission from fossil fuel and cement production

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Bo Zheng, Yilong Wang, Duo Cui, Biqing Zhu, Xinyu Dou, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Rui Guo, Haiwang Zhong, Olivier Boucher, François-Marie Bréon, Chenxi Lu, Runtao Guo, Jinjun Xue, Eulalie Boucher, Katsumasa Tanaka, Frédéric Chevallier

2020 346 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Trends and drivers of African fossil fuel CO₂ emissions 1990-2017

Lacour M. Ayompe, Steven J. Davis, Benis N. Egoh

2021 193 cites 2026

Geophysical Research Letters · 2020 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Local Anomalies in the Column-Averaged Dry Air Mole Fractions of Carbon Dioxide Across the Globe During the First Months of the Coronavirus Recession

Frédéric Chevallier, Bo Zheng, Grégoire B. Ciais, Zhu Liu, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Deng, Yilong Wang, François‐Marie Bréon, Christopher W. O'Dell

Nature Communications · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Near-real-time monitoring of global CO₂ emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng, Ruixue Lei, Steven J. 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 Zhou, Zhaonan Cai, Yuhui Wu, Runtao Guo, Tingxuan Han, Jinjun Xue, Olivier Boucher, Eulalie Boucher, Frédéric Chevallier, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yimin Wei, Haiwang Zhong, Chongqing Kang, Ning Zhang, Bin Chen, Fengming Xi, Miaomiao Liu, François-Marie Bréon, Yonglong Lu, Qiang Zhang, Dabo Guan, Peng Gong, Daniel M. Kammen, Kebin He, Hans J. Schellnhuber

2020 1,259 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2020 · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Regional and county flows of particulate matter damage in the U.S.

Brian Sergi, Ines Azevedo, Steven J. Davis, Nicholas Z. Muller

AGU Advances · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Committed Emissions of the U.S. Power Sector, 2000–2018

Christine Shearer, Dan Tong, Robert Fofrich, Steven J. Davis

Brief

iScience · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Effects of Deep Reductions in Energy Storage Costs on Highly Reliable Wind and Solar Electricity Systems

Fan Tong, Mengyao Yuan, Nathan S. Lewis, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira

Applied Energy · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Would firm generators facilitate or deter variable renewable energy in a carbon-free electricity system?

Mengyao Yuan, Lei Duan, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira

Brief

Environmental Research Letters · 2020 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Climate effects of China's efforts to improve its air quality

Yixuan Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira

Joule · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems

Jacqueline A. Dowling, Ken Caldeira, Katherine Z. Rinaldi, Tyler H. Ruggles, Steven J. Davis, Mengyao Yuan, Fan Tong, Nathan S. Lewis

2020 702 cites 2026

Brief

Nature Climate Change · 2020 · HEALTH · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Weakening aerosol direct radiative effects mitigate climate penalty on Chinese air quality

Chaopeng Hong, Qiang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Xin Zhang, Dan Tong, Dabo Guan, Zhu Liu, Kebin He

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2020 · ENERGY · FOOD · MITIGATION

The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Christopher B. Field, Eric A. Appel, Ines L. Azevedo, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Marshall Burke, Jennifer A. Burney, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Arlene M. Fiore, Sarah M. Fletcher, Thomas W. Hertel, Daniel E. Horton, Solomon M. Hsiang, Robert B. Jackson, Xiaomeng Jin, Margaret Levi, David B. Lobell, Galen A. McKinley, Frances C. Moore, Anastasia Montgomery, Kari C. Nadeau, Diane E. Pataki, James T. Randerson, Markus Reichstein, Jordan L. Schnell, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Deepti Singh, Allison L. Steiner, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi

2020 270 cites 2026

Nature Human Behaviour · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures

Dabo Guan, Daoping Wang, Stephane Hallegatte, Steven J. Davis, Jingwen Huo, Shuping Li, Yangchun Bai, Tianyang Lei, Qianyu Xue, D’Maris Coffman, Danyang Cheng, Peipei Chen, Xi Liang, Bing Xu, Xiaosheng Lu, Shouyang Wang, Klaus Hubacek, Peng Gong

2020 1,152 cites 2026

National Science Review · 2020 · HEALTH · ENERGY · IMPACTS

Enhanced secondary pollution offset reduction of primary emissions during COVID 19 lockdown in China

Xin Huang, Aijun Ding, Jian Gao, Bo Zheng, Derong Zhou, Ximeng Qi, Rong Tang, Jiaping Wang, Chuanhua Ren, Wei Nie, Xuguang Chi, Zheng Xu, Liangduo Chen, Yuanyuan Li, Fei Che, Nini Pang, Haikun Wang, Dan Tong, Wei Qin, Wei Cheng, Weijing Liu, Qingyan Fu, Baoxian Liu, Fahe Chai, Steven J Davis, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He

2020 931 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2020 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios

R. Fofrich, D. Tong, K. Calvin, H. Sytze de Boer, J. Emmerling, O. Fricko, S. Fujimori, G. Luderer, J. Rogelj, S.J. Davis

Brief

Nature Climate Change · 2020 · WATER · FOOD · IMPACTS

Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

Yue Qin, John T. Abatzoglou, Stefan Siebert, Laurie S. Huning, Amir AghaKouchak, Justin S. Mankin, Chaopeng Hong, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Nathaniel D. Mueller

2020 511 cites 2026

Sustainable Cities and Society · 2020 · WATER · FOOD · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Data and analysis toolbox for modeling the nexus of food, energy, and water

Mojtaba Sadegh, Amir AghaKouchak, Iman Mallakpour, Laurie S. Huning, Omid Mazdiyasni, Mohsen Niknejad, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Frances C. Moore, Jack Brouwer, Arvin Farid, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Alexandre Martinez, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Steven J. Davis

Environmental Science and Technology · 2020 · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Optimizing emissions reductions from the US power sector for climate and health benefits

Brian J. Sergi, Peter J. Adams, Nicholas Z. Muller, Allen L. Robinson, Steven J. Davis, Julian D. Marshall, Inês L. Azevedo

Nature Food · 2020 · FOOD · IMPACTS

Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California

Chaopeng Hong, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Jennifer A. Burney, Amir A. Y. Zhang, Frances C. Moore, Yue Qin, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis

2020 147 cites 2026

Brief

Nature Communications · 2020 · FOOD · IMPACTS

Climate adaptation by crop migration

Lindsey L. Sloat, Steven J. Davis, James S. Gerber, Frances C. Moore, Deepak K. Ray, Paul C. West, Nathaniel D. Mueller

2020 410 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2020 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Climate effects of aerosols reduce economic inequality

Yixuan Zheng, Steven J. Davis, Geeta G. Persad, Ken Caldeira

Nature Communications · 2019 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

Xiaoping Liu, Fengsong Pei, Youyue Wen, Xia Li, Changjiang W. S. Wang, Yiling Cai, Jianguo Wu, Jun Chen, Klaus H. K. Feng, Junguo Liu, Steven J. Davis, Wenping Yuan, Le Yu, Zhu Liu

2020 406 cites 2026

Nature communications · 2019 · HEALTH · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Inequality of household consumption and air pollution-related deaths in China

Hongyan Zhao, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Xin Li, Yang Liu, Liqun Peng, Meng Li, Bo Zheng, Hong Huo, Lin Zhang, Daven K. Henze, Zhifu Mi, Zhu Liu, Dabo Guan, Kebin He

2020 234 cites 2026

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · HEALTH · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Impacts of climate change on future air quality and human health in China

Chaopeng Hong, Qiang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Dan Tong, Yixuan Zheng, Zhu Liu, Dabo Guan, Kebin He, Hans J. Schellnhuber

2019 424 cites 2026

Nature · 2019 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target

Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Ken Caldeira, Christine Shearer, Chaopeng Hong, Yue Qin, Steven J. Davis

2019 1,087 cites 2026

Nature Sustainability · 2019 · WATER · FOOD · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Flexibility and intensity of global water use

Yue Qin, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Stefan Siebert, Robert B. Jackson, Amir AghaKouchak, Julie B. Zimmerman, Dan Tong, Chaopeng Hong, Steven J. Davis

2019 252 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2019 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Public lands fly under climate radar

Nathan Ratledge, Steven J. Davis, Laura Zachary

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · ENERGY · CLIMATE · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Economic carbon cycle feedbacks may offset additional warming from natural feedbacks

Dawn L. Woodard, Steven J. Davis, James T. Randerson

Nature Sustainability · 2018 · ENERGY · IMPACTS

Without a back-up plan

Steven J. Davis, Jay Taneja

Nature Plants · 2018 · FOOD · IMPACTS

Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat

Wei Xie, Wei Xiong, Jie Pan, Tariq Ali, Qi Cui, Dabo Guan, Jing Meng, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Erda Lin, Steven J. Davis

2018 271 cites 2026

In the news: Scientific American·Associated Press

Geophysical Research Letters · 2018 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Climatic responses to future trans-Arctic shipping

Scott R. Stephenson, Wenshan Wang, Charles S. Zender, Hailong Wang, Steven J. Davis, Philip J. Rasch

Nature Geoscience · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Structural decline in China’s CO₂ emissions through transitions in industry and energy systems

Dabo Guan, Jing Meng, David M. Reiner, Ning Zhang, Yuli Shan, Zhifu Mi, Shuai Shao, Zhu Liu, Qiang Zhang, Steven J. Davis

2018 575 cites 2026

Science · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Net-zero emissions energy systems

Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Matthew Shaner, Sonia Aggarwal, Doug Arent, Inês L. Azevedo, Sally M. Benson, Thomas Bradley, Jack Brouwer, Yet-Ming Chiang, Christopher T. M. Clack, Armond Cohen, Stephen Doig, Jae Edmonds, Paul Fennell, Christopher B. Field, Bryan Hannegan, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Martin I. Hoffert, Eric Ingersoll, Paulina Jaramillo, Klaus S. Lackner, Katharine J. Mach, Michael Mastrandrea, Joan Ogden, Per F. Peterson, Daniel L. Sanchez, Daniel Sperling, Joseph Stagner, Jessika E. Trancik, Chi-Jen Yang, Ken Caldeira

2018 2,947 cites 2026

Science Advances · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

City-level climate change mitigation in China

Yuli Shan, Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek, Bo Zheng, Steven J. Davis, Lichao Jia, Jianghua Liu, Zhu Liu, Neil Fromer, Zhifu Mi, Jing Meng, Xiangzheng Deng, Yuan Li, Jintai Lin, Heike Schroeder, Helga Weisz, Hans J. Schellnhuber

2018 472 cites 2026

Nature Communications · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

The rise of South–South trade and its effect on global CO₂ emissions

Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li, Shu Tao, Yuan Li, Kuishuang Feng, Junfeng Liu, Zhu Liu, Xuejun Wang, Qiang Zhang, Davis S. J.

2018 516 cites 2026

Environmental Science and Technology · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Infrastructure Shapes Differences in the Carbon Intensities of Chinese Cities

Bo Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais, Chaopeng Hong, Meng Li, Fei Liu, Dan Tong, Haiyan Li, Kebin He

Nature Energy · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Predicting unpredictability

Steven J. Davis

Energy and Environmental Science · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States

Matthew R. Shaner, Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira

2018 441 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2018 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Turning Paris into reality at the University of California

David G. Victor, Ahmed Abdulla, David Auston, Wendell Brase, Karl Brown, Steven J. Davis, Carrie V. Kappel, Alan Meier, Mark Modera, Rebecca Z. Pass, David Phillips, Jordan Sager, David Weil

Nature Sustainability · 2018 · ENERGY · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units

Qiang Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Fei Liu, Bo Zheng, Guannan Geng, Tao Xue, Meng Li, Chaopeng Hong, Zifeng Lu, David G. Streets, Dabo Guan, Kebin He Dan Tong

2018 369 cites 2026

Journal of Cleaner Production · 2017 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Land-use change emissions from soybean feed embodied in Brazilian pork and poultry meat

Dario Caro, Steven J. Davis, Ermias Kebreab, Frank Mitloehner

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · 2017 · HEALTH · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Effects of atmospheric transport and trade on air pollution mortality in China

Hongyan Zhao, Xin Li, Qiang Zhang, Xujia Jiang, Jintai Lin, Glen P. Peters, Meng Li, Guannan Geng, Bo Zheng, Hong Huo, Lin Zhang, Haikun Wang, Steven J. Davis, Kebin He

Geophyscial Research Letters · 2017 · FOOD · IMPACTS

Probabilistic estimates of drought impacts on agricultural production

Shahrbanou Madadgar, Amir AghaKouchak, Alireza Farahmand, Steven J. Davis

2018 280 cites 2026

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar

Christopher T. M. Clack, Staffan A. Qvist, Jay Apt, Morgan Bazilian, Adam R. Brandt, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis, Victor Diakov, Mark A. Handschy, Paul D. H. Hines, Paulina Jaramillo, Daniel M. Kammen, Jane C. S. Long, M G. Morgan, Adam Reed, Varun Sivaram, James Sweeney, George R. Tynan, David G. Victor, John P. Weyant, Jay F. Whitacre

2017 461 cites 2026

Science Advances · 2017 · HEALTH · IMPACTS

Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves

Omid Mazdiyasni, Amir AghaKouchak, Steven J. Davis, Shahrbanou Madadgar, Ali Mehran, Elisa Ragno, Mojtaba Sadegh, Ashmita Sengupta, Subimal Ghosh, C T. Dhanya, Mohsen Niknejad

2017 513 cites 2026

Earth's Future · 2017 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Future CO₂ emissions and electricity generation from proposed coal-fired power plants in India

Christine Shearer, Steven J. Davis, Robert Fofrich

2017 167 cites 2026

Nature · 2017 · HEALTH · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Transboundary health impacts of transported global air pollution and international trade

Qiang Zhang, Xujia Jiang, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Hongyan Zhao, Guannan Geng, Tong Feng, Bo Zheng, Zifeng Lu, David G. Streets, Ruijing Ni, Michael Brauer, Aaron V. Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Hong Huo, Zhu Liu, Da Pan, Haidong Kan, Yingying Yan, Jintai Lin, Kebin He, Dabo Guan

2016 1,185 cites 2026

· 2017 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Greenhouse gas emissions due to beef cattle, pork and chickens in the last fifty years

Dario Caro, Steven J. Davis, Simone Bastianoni, Ken Caldeira

Applied Energy · 2016 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Understanding the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and the implication for achieving climate change mitigation targets

Zhu Liu, Kuishuang Feng, Steven J. Davis, Dabo Guan, Bin Chen, Klaus Hubacek, Jinyue Yan

Nature Geoscience · 2016 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation

Fengming Xi, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais, Douglas Crawford-Brown, Dabo Guan, Claus Pade, Tiemao Shi, Mark Syddall, Jie Lv, Lanzhu Ji, Longfei Bing, Jiaoyue Wang, Wei Wei, Keun-Hyeok Yang, Björn Lagerblad, Isabel Galan, Carmen Andrade, Ying Zhang, Zhu Liu

2016 774 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2016 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Simulating the Earth system response to negative emissions

Chris D. Jones, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Pierre Friedlingstein, Thomas Gasser, Glen P. Peters, Joeri Rogelj, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Josep G. Canadell, Annette Cowie, Robert B. Jackson, Matthias Jonas, Elmar Kriegler, Emma Littleton, Jason A. Lowe, Jennifer Milne, Gyami Shrestha, Pete Smith, Asbjørn Torvanger, Andy Wiltshire

2016 194 cites 2026

Nature Geoscience · 2016 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Global climate forcing of aerosols embodied in international trade

Jintai Lin, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Ruijing Ni, Xiaoxiao Tan, Da Pan, Hongyan Zhao, Zifeng Lu, David Streets, Tong Feng, Qiang Zhang, Yingying Yan, Yongyun Hu, Jing Li, Zhu Liu, Xujia Jiang, Guannan Geng, Kebin He, Yi Huang, Dabo Guan

2016 107 cites 2026

Annual Review of Environment and Resources · 2016 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Carbon lock-in: types, causes, and policy implications

Karen C. Seto, Steven J. Davis, Ronald B. Mitchell, Eleanor C. Stokes, Gregory Unruh, Diana Urge-Vorsatz

2017 1,721 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2016 · ENERGY · IMPACTS

Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program

Christine Shearer, Mick West, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis

Environmental Research Letters · 2016 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

Dislocated interests and climate change

Steven J. Davis, Noah Diffenbaugh

Nature Climate Change · 2015 · ENERGY · WATER · FOOD · MITIGATION

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO₂ emissions

Pete Smith, Steven J. Davis, Felix Creutzig, Sabine Fuss, Jan Minx, Etsushi Kato, Robert B. Jackson, Annette Cowie, Elmar Krieger, Detlef P. V. Wuhren, Joeri Rogelj, Philippe Ciais, Jennifer Milne, Josep G. Canadell, David McCollum, Glen Peters, Robbie Andrew, Volker Krey, Gyami Shrestha, Pierre Friedlingstein, Thomas Gasser, Arnulf Grübler, Wolfgang K. Heidug, Matthias Jonas, Chris D. Jones, Florian Kraxler, Emma Littleton, Jason Lowe, José R. Moreira, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Michael Obersteiner, Anand Patwardhan, Mathis Rogner, Ed Rubin, Ayyoob Sharifi, Asbjørn Torvanger, Yoshiki Yamagata, Jae Edmonds, Cho Yongsung

2016 1,894 cites 2026

Nature Climate Change · 2015 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Developing country finance in a post-2020 global climate agreement

Phillip M. Hannam, Zhenliang Liao, Steven J. Davis, Michael Oppenheimer

Nature Climate Change · 2015 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Targeted opportunities to address the climate–trade dilemma in China

Zhu Liu, Steven J. Davis, Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Sai Liang, Laura D. Anadon, Bin Chen, Jingru Liu, Jinyue Yan, Dabo Guan

2015 325 cites 2026

In the news: Scientific American

Environmental Research Letters · 2015 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Climate constraints on the carbon intensity of economic growth

Julie Rozenberg, Steven J. Davis, Ulf Narloch, Stephane Hallegatte

Ecological Restoration · 2015 · FOOD · IMPACTS

Cost-effective ecological restoration

Sarah Kimball, Megan Lulow, Quinn Sorenson, Kathleen Balazs, Yi-Chin Fang, Steven J. Davis, Michael O'Connell, Travis E. Huxman

2016 271 cites 2026

Nature · 2015 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China

Zhu Liu, Dabo Guan, Wei Wei, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais, Jin Bai, Shushi Peng, Qiang Zhang, Klaus Hubacek, Gregg Marland

2015 1,854 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2015 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

Rate and velocity of climate change caused by cumulative carbon emissions

Anna LoPresti, Allison Charland, Dawn Woodard, James Randerson, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Steven J. Davis

Nature Communications · 2015 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Drivers of the US CO₂ emissions 1997–2013

Kuishuang Feng, Steven J. Davis, Laixiang Sun, Klaus Hubacek

2015 497 cites 2026

Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2015 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Relevance of methodological choices for accounting of land use change carbon fluxes

Eberhard Hansis, Steven J. Davis, Julia Pongratz

2014 300 cites 2026

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · 2015 · HEALTH · IMPACTS · MITIGATION

Assessment of China's virtual air pollution transport embodied in trade by using a consumption-based emission inventory

H.Y. Zhao, Q. Zhang, D.B. Guan, S.J. Davis, Z. Liu, H. Huo, J.T. Lin, W.D. Liu, K.B. He

2015 183 cites 2026

Science · 2015 · ENERGY · FOOD · WATER · MITIGATION

Systems integration for global sustainability

Jianguo Liu, Harold Mooney, Vanessa Hull, Steven J. Davis, Joanne Gaskell, Thomas Hertel, Jane Lubchenco, Karen C. Seto, Peter Gleick, Claire Kremen, Shuxin Li

2015 1,634 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2014 · FOOD · MITIGATION

CH₄ and N₂O emissions embodied in international trade of meat

Dario Caro, Anna LoPresti, Steven J. Davis, Simone Bastianoni, Ken Caldeira

2014 103 cites 2026

Nature · 2014 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

A crack in the natural-gas bridge

Steven J. Davis, Christine Shearer

Climatic change · 2014 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Global and regional trends in greenhouse gas emissions from livestock

Dario Caro, Steven J. Davis, Simone Bastianoni, Ken Caldeira

2014 337 cites 2026

In the news: Washington Post·Los Angeles Times

Nature Climate Change · 2014 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Sharing a quota on cumulative emissions

Michael R. Raupach, Steven J. Davis, Glen P. Peters, Robbie M. Andrew, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Frank Jotzo, Detlef P. V. Vuuren, Corinne L. Quéré

2014 560 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2014 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

The effect of natural gas supply on US renewable energy and CO₂ emissions

Christine Shearer, John Bistline, Mason Inman, Steven J. Davis

2014 129 cites 2026

Environmental Research Letters · 2014 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Commitment accounting of CO₂ emissions

Steven J. Davis, Robert H. Socolow

2014 288 cites 2026

Carbon Management · 2014 · FOOD · MITIGATION

Methods for attributing land-use emissions to products

Steven J. Davis, Jennifer A. Burney, Julia Pongratz, Ken Caldeira

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · HEALTH · MITIGATION · IMPACTS

China’s international trade and air pollution in the United States

Jintai Lin, Da Pan, Steven J. Davis, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Can Wang, David G. Streets, Donald J. Wuebbles, Dabo Guan

2014 605 cites 2026

In the news: Wall Street Journal, “U.S. Consumers Contribute, Not a Littl·Washington Post·Los Angeles Times

Environmental Research Letters · 2013 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Climate policy and dependence on traded carbon

Robbie M. Andrew, Steven J. Davis, Glen P. Peters

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Outsourcing CO₂ within china

Kuishuang Feng, Steven J. Davis, Laixiang Sun, Xin Li, Dabo Guan, Weidong Liu, Zhu Liu, Klaus Hubacek

2013 759 cites 2026

In the news: Washington Post·Nature Climate Change·BBC, ”China outsources carbon emissions to poorer areas,” Me

Environmental Research Letters · 2013 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

Rethinking wedges

Steven J. Davis, Long Cao, Ken Caldeira, Martin I. Hoffert

In the news: Science·VICE

Biogeosciences · 2012 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

The Australian terrestrial carbon budget

Vanessa Haverd, Michael R Raupach, Peter R Briggs, Josep G Canadell, Steven J Davis, Rachel M Law, CP Meyer, Glen P Peters, Christopher Pickett-Heaps, Brad Sherman

2012 148 cites 2025

Geosphere · 2012 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

Provenance of the Paleogene Colton Formation (Uinta Basin) and Cretaceous–Paleogene provenance evolution in the Utah foreland: Evidence from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons …

William R. Dickinson, Timothy F. Lawton, Mark Pecha, Steven J. Davis, George E. Gehrels, Richard A. Young

2013 121 cites 2026

Biogeosciences Discuss · 2012 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

A synthesis of carbon in international trade

Glen P. Peters, Steven J. Davis, Robbie M. Andrew

2012 497 cites 2026

American Journal of Science · 2012 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

The Cenozoic climatic and topographic evolution of the western North American Cordillera

C. Page Chamberlain, Hari T. Mix, Andreas Mulch, Michael T. Hren, Malinda L. Kent-Corson, Steven J. Davis, Travis Horton, Stephan A. Graham

2011 227 cites 2026

Biogeosciences Discuss · 2012 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

A synthesis of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion

Robert J Andres, Thomas A Boden, Francois M Bréon, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, David Erickson, Jay S Gregg, Andrew Jacobson, Gregg Marland, J Miller, Tomohiro Oda, Jos GJ Olivier, Michael R Raupach, Peter Rayner, Karen Treanton