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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ab842a |
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights | |
Haberl, Helmut1; Wiedenhofer, Dominik1; Virag, Doris1; Kalt, Gerald1; Plank, Barbara1; Brockway, Paul2; Fishman, Tomer3; Hausknost, Daniel5; Krausmann, Fridolin1; Leon-Gruchalski, Bartholomaeus4; Mayer, Andreas1; Pichler, Melanie1; Schaffartzik, Anke1,6; Sousa, Tania7; Streeck, Jan1; Creutzig, Felix8 | |
2020-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 15期号:6 |
文章类型 | Review |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Austria; England; Israel; Spain; Portugal; Germany |
英文摘要 | Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of 'decoupling'; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and GHG emissions. GDP growth coinciding with absolute reductions in emissions or resource use is denoted as 'absolute decoupling', as opposed to 'relative decoupling', where resource use or emissions increase less so than does GDP. Based on the bibliometric mapping in part I (Wiedenhoferet al,2020Environ. Res. Lett.15), we synthesize the evidence emerging from the selected 835 peer-reviewed articles. We evaluate empirical studies of decoupling related to final/useful energy, exergy, use of material resources, as well as CO(2)and total GHG emissions. We find that relative decoupling is frequent for material use as well as GHG and CO(2)emissions but not for useful exergy, a quality-based measure of energy use. Primary energy can be decoupled from GDP largely to the extent to which the conversion of primary energy to useful exergy is improved. Examples of absolute long-term decoupling are rare, but recently some industrialized countries have decoupled GDP from both production- and, weaklier, consumption-based CO(2)emissions. We analyze policies or strategies in the decoupling literature by classifying them into three groups: (1) Green growth, if sufficient reductions of resource use or emissions were deemed possible without altering the growth trajectory. (2) Degrowth, if reductions of resource use or emissions were given priority over GDP growth. (3) Others, e.g. if the role of energy for GDP growth was analyzed without reference to climate change mitigation. We conclude that large rapid absolute reductions of resource use and GHG emissions cannot be achieved through observed decoupling rates, hence decoupling needs to be complemented by sufficiency-oriented strategies and strict enforcement of absolute reduction targets. More research is needed on interdependencies between wellbeing, resources and emissions. |
英文关键词 | decoupling economic growth degrowth material flow energy exergy GHG emissions |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000541789900001 |
WOS关键词 | GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS ; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE ; STRUCTURAL DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS ; MATERIAL FLOW INDICATORS ; TOTAL MATERIAL REQUIREMENT ; DIRECT MATERIAL INPUTS ; DEMAND-SIDE SOLUTIONS ; LONG-TERM TRENDS ; IN-USE STOCKS ; ECONOMIC-GROWTH |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/289338 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Nat Resources & Life Sci, Inst Social Ecol, Vienna, Austria; 2.Univ Leeds, Sch Earth & Environm, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England; 3.Interdisciplinary Ctr Herzliya, Sch Sustainabil, Herzliyya, Israel; 4.Univ Nat Resources & Life Sci, Inst Safety & Risk Sci, Vienna, Austria; 5.Vienna Univ Econ & Business, Inst Social Change & Sustainabil, Vienna, Austria; 6.Univ Autonoma Barcelona ICTA UAB, Inst Ciencia & Tecnol Ambientals, Barcelona, Spain; 7.Univ Lisbon, Inst Super Tecn, MARETEC, Lisbon, Portugal; 8.Mercator Inst Global Commons MCC, Berlin, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Haberl, Helmut,Wiedenhofer, Dominik,Virag, Doris,et al. A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2020,15(6). |
APA | Haberl, Helmut.,Wiedenhofer, Dominik.,Virag, Doris.,Kalt, Gerald.,Plank, Barbara.,...&Creutzig, Felix.(2020).A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,15(6). |
MLA | Haberl, Helmut,et al."A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 15.6(2020). |
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