Peer-reviewed work

• 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.

  

• 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

• FEATURED · 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

  Rising land costs in China make fixed-tilt solar systems cheaper than tracking systems, despite tracking's higher efficiency.

  

• 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.

  

• 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

  

• 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

• 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

• 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 23 cites 2026

  Brief

  

• 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 171 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 95 cites 2026

  

• 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

• 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

• 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 406 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 38 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 102 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

• 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 226 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 125 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 Bajželj, 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 559 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 319 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 141 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 444 cites 2026

  Brief

  

• 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 153 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 158 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 108 cites 2026

  Brief

  

• 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 140 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 215 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 192 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 119 cites 2026

• Nature · 2022 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

  Cement and steel — nine steps to net zero

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

  2021 180 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 125 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 615 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 122 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 103 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 129 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 284 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 365 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 148 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 118 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 418 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 133 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 1,560 cites 2026

• Joule · 2021 · MATERIALS · MITIGATION

  Decarbonizing cement production

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

  2021 243 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 374 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 117 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 395 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 616 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 418 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 304 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 184 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 1,446 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 623 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 261 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 1,107 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 890 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 460 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 136 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 374 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 368 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 250 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 399 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 1,013 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 233 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 257 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 544 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 2,704 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 450 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 488 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 425 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 350 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 272 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 452 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 490 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 166 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 1,148 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 714 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 188 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 103 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 1,509 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 1,845 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 323 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 256 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 1,772 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 486 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 290 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 177 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 1,558 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

• 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 325 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 544 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 128 cites 2026

• Environmental Research Letters · 2014 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

  Commitment accounting of CO₂ emissions

  Steven J. Davis, Robert H. Socolow

  2014 279 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 591 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 718 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 146 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 118 cites 2026

• Biogeosciences Discuss · 2012 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

  A synthesis of carbon in international trade

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

  2012 495 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 220 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

  2012 482 cites 2026

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

  The supply chain of CO₂ emissions

  Steven J. Davis, Glen P. Peters, Ken Caldeira

  2011 664 cites 2026

  In the news: The Guardian·The Guardian

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

  Accounting for carbon dioxide emissions: A matter of time

  Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis

• Geology · 2010 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

  The Paleogene California River: evidence of Mojave-Uinta paleodrainage from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons

  Steven J. Davis, William R. Dickinson, George E. Gehrels, Jon E. Spencer, Timothy F. Lawton, Alan R. Carroll

• Science · 2010 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

  Future CO₂ emissions and climate change from existing energy infrastructure

  Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira, H. Damon Matthews

  2010 1,714 cites 2026

  In the news: Wired Magazine

• Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences · 2010 · FOOD · CLIMATE · MITIGATION

  Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification

  Jennifer A. Burney, Steven J. Davis, David B. Lobell

  2010 1,567 cites 2026

  In the news: TIME Magazine “Industrial Farming Slows Climate Change?” Bry

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · ENERGY · MITIGATION

  Consumption-based accounting of CO₂ emissions

  Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira

  2010 2,493 cites 2026

  In the news: New York Times·Nature Climate Change·BBC·The Economist·NPR, All Things Considered, “For Developing Nations, Exports

• American Journal of Science · 2009 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

  Synorogenic evolution of large-scale drainage patterns: Isotope paleohydrology of sequential Laramide basins

  Steven J. Davis, Hari T. Mix, Bettina A. Wiegand, Alan R. Carroll, C. Page Chamberlain

• Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2009 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

  Paleogene landscape evolution of the central North American Cordillera: Developing topography and hydrology in the Laramide foreland

  Steven J. Davis, Andreas Mulch, Alan R. Carroll, Travis W. Horton, C. Page Chamberlain

  2009 100 cites 2026

• Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2008 · CLIMATE · IMPACTS

  The effect of drainage reorganization on paleoaltimetry studies: An example from the Paleogene Laramide foreland

  Steven J. Davis, Bettina A. Wiegand, Alan R. Carroll, C. Page Chamberlain

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