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  1. Nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban areas offer an opportunity to improve environmental conditions and to reduce CO2 emissions towards establishing climate-neutral cities in the next few decades. Furthermore, t...

    Authors: Stevan Savić, Hrvoje Krstić, Ivan Šećerov and Jelena Dunjić
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. The global commitment to climate change mitigation enforces the worldwide development of renewable energy sources. Therefore, various studies have investigated the growth of renewable energy in Malaysia, most ...

    Authors: Siti Fatihah Salleh, Mohd Eqwan Mohd Roslan, Adlansyah Abd Rahman, Abdul Halim Shamsuddin, Tuan Ab Rashid Tuan Abdullah and Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:38
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Wind power is a critical renewable energy technology in efforts to achieve the global climate targets. However, local impacts do occur, which demands careful consideration in planning and permitting. Sweden ha...

    Authors: Vincent Wretling, Berit Balfors and Ulla Mörtberg
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:48
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Nonindustrial private forest owners (NIPFs) in Finland are important stakeholders of forest management and roundwood supply decisions. Their role will also be significant to supply energy wood to meet Finland'...

    Authors: Pradipta Halder, Timo Weckroth, Qu Mei and Paavo Pelkonen
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:19
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  5. Scarcity of fossil fuels and their emissions have led energy policymakers to look for alternative renewable and clean energy sources. In line with this target, biomass is a promising alternative source for the...

    Authors: Mohadeseh Bijarchiyan, Hadi Sahebi and Saeed Mirzamohammadi
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:19
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  6. Forward-thinking governments recognize that local renewable resource use is crucial to the resilience of communities and are developing and implementing community energy plans (CEPs). Guelph, Ontario, (Canada)...

    Authors: Joseph H McIntyre
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:23
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  7. To achieve the ambition of the energy transition in the built environment, Dutch local governments try to motivate citizens to participate as communities in policy processes. There is a general expectation tha...

    Authors: Maurits PT Sanders, Michiel A Heldeweg, Elly GP Straatman and Johan FDB Wempe
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014 4:4
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  8. Forest biomass harvesting guidelines help ensure the ecological sustainability of forest residue harvesting for bioenergy and bioproducts, and hence contribute to social license for a growing bioeconomy. Guide...

    Authors: Brian D. Titus, Kevin Brown, Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari, Elena Vanguelova, Inge Stupak, Alexander Evans, Nicholas Clarke, Claudia Guidi, Viktor J. Bruckman, Iveta Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Wim de Vries, Keizo Hirai, Lilli Kaarakka, Karen Hogg and Pam Reece
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Norway is currently in the process of replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs). A steadily increasing number of EVs being charged in the evening when the demand peaks ar...

    Authors: Ida Marie Henriksen, William Throndsen, Marianne Ryghaug and Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:44
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  10. Development finance is vital for low- and middle-income countries to enhance their sustainability agendas, as it provides essential funding necessary to close domestic financing gaps, including in the energy s...

    Authors: Amar Causevic, Biljana Macura, Nabil Haque, Sasa Solujic and Adnan Ploskić
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:47
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Poor air quality and inadequate domestic heating sources are tightly connected problems in the Eastern-European countryside. There are a few alternatives to comprehensively solve these problems with an emphasi...

    Authors: José Campos, Csaba Csontos, Ádám Harmat, Gábor Csüllög and Béla Munkácsy
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:40
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  12. Public awareness is crucial for successful deployment of tidal energy, a renewable energy source that can provide clean electricity to remote islands. However, considering public attitudes on tidal energy are ...

    Authors: Rohit Ramachandran, A. H. T. Shyam Kularathna, Hirotaka Matsuda and Ken Takagi
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:26
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  14. District Heating (DH) is a technology that provides heating and domestic hot water to buildings and is an important technology for supporting the European energy transition. As such the heating systems increas...

    Authors: Kristina Lygnerud, Theo Nyberg, Anna Nilsson, Antoine Fabre, Pascal Stabat, Chloé Duchayne and Valentin Gavan
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:38
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 calls for the adoption and continued use of clean-burning stoves by the 2.9 billion people relying on unclean fuels (both solid biomass and kerosene). However, to date, the...

    Authors: Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Sara Sievers and Daniel M. Kammen
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:5
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  16. In recent years, the monitoring of occupant presence patterns has become an imperative for building energy optimization. Very often, there is a significant discrepancy between the building energy performance p...

    Authors: Robert Rusek, Joaquim Melendez Frigola and Joan Colomer Llinas
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:13
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  17. Injera is food consumed daily by Ethiopians like bread and rice in other parts of the world. Biomass stoves are used to bake Injera in most rural households. The unsustainable use of fuelwood causes deforestation...

    Authors: Asfafaw Haileselassie Tesfay, Kibreab Tsegay, Mulu Bayray Kahsay, Mesele Hayelom Hailu and Muyiwa Samuel Adaramola
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Recently, several papers have assessed land use consequences of biofuel expansion. In the absence of empirical evidence, these papers assigned subjective values to extensive margin (productivity of new croplan...

    Authors: Farzad Taheripour, Qianlai Zhuang, Wallace E Tyner and Xiaoliang Lu
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:25
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  20. The transition of the energy system to renewable energy depends on how successfully the national objectives can be implemented at the lower planning levels. Germany pursues an incentive-oriented policy that is...

    Authors: Julia Wiehe, Christina von Haaren and Anna Walter
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:10
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  21. Energy cooperatives are a prominent and common form of community energy. Community energy has the potential to increase actor diversity and local acceptance of renewable energies and has therefore been highlig...

    Authors: Thomas Meister, Benjamin Schmid, Irmi Seidl and Britta Klagge
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:18
    Content type: Original article Published on:

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  22. In Ethiopia, biomass contributes to about 92% of the household fuel consumption. As a result, deforestation rate has alarmingly increased associated with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land degradation. Th...

    Authors: Ashenafi Manaye, Selemawit Amaha, Yirga Gufi, Berihu Tesfamariam, Adefires Worku and Haftu Abrha
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:28
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  24. The province of Ontario in Canada is the first North American jurisdiction withlegislation in place to eliminate coal-fired thermoelectric production by theend of 2014. Ontario Power Generation (OPG) operates ...

    Authors: Jason Ernest Elvin Dampier, Chander Shahi, Raynald Harvey Lemelin and Nancy Luckai
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. The German energy transition has entered a new phase and one important aspect is the question, to what degree the gas sector could be supplied with so-called “green” gases, i.e., gases from renewable sources. ...

    Authors: Patrick Matschoss, Michael Steubing, Joachim Pertagnol, Yue Zheng, Bernhard Wern, Martin Dotzauer and Daniela Thrän
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:41
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  26. Crop residues are an important raw material for bioenergy. There is, however, obvious seasonality in crop harvests, and thus, a continuous supply of crop residues and its respective influencing factors should ...

    Authors: Xin Long Xu, Hsing Hung Chen and Yi Li
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:35
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  27. Applying the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) on socio-technical transitions, paired with the interdisciplinary framing approach, this paper investigates how incumbent actors of automobility in Germany framed the...

    Authors: C. E. Drexler, B. Verse, A. Hauslbauer, J. Lopez and S. Haider
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:50
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  29. In this article, the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and related implications for the measurement of sustainable development are analyzed. Technological innovations can play an important role in co...

    Authors: Florian Siekmann, Holger Schlör and Sandra Venghaus
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Germany is highly dependent on natural gas, the availability of which has become uncertain due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Biogas provision in Germany is realized by more than 9500 mainly farm-side biogas...

    Authors: Daniela Thrän, Karen Deprie, Martin Dotzauer, Peter Kornatz, Michael Nelles, Kai Sven Radtke and Harry Schindler
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:12
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  31. Sustainability of energy is key for quality life; thus, the use of clean energy at the household level warrants moving from fossil-based energy to modern forms like biogas. However, the joint interactive effec...

    Authors: Isaac Mbir Bryant and Abdul-Rahaman Afitiri
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:16
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  33. There is a growing body of literature that examines the role of local governments in addressing climate change vis-à-vis mitigation and adaptation. Although it appears that climate change mitigation strategies - ...

    Authors: Thomas Hoppe, Maya M van den Berg and Frans HJM Coenen
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014 4:8
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  35. Considering energy- and climate-related policies adopted, the European Union and the People’s Republic of China are expected to be on the same trajectory of reducing pollution, aiming for carbon neutrality in ...

    Authors: Nevena Šekarić Stojanović and Katarina Zakić
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. At the COP21, cities were recognised as key actors in combatting climate change. In supporting cities, climate city networks such as transnational climate networks (TCNs) and national climate networks (NCNs) h...

    Authors: Mateo Zapata Arango, Thomas Hoppe, Anatol Itten and Kornelis Blok
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. The transition towards a sustainable energy system is reshaping the demand for final energy, driven by the diffusion of new end-use technologies. This shift not only impacts consumers’ energy expenses, but als...

    Authors: Jan Frederick George, Alexander Marx, Anne Held, Jenny Winkler, Anke Bekk and Mario Ragwitz
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. As the demand for wood pellets has increased in EU member states, so has a multi-pronged examination of the environmental effects of establishing a transatlantic trade in wood pellets between the U.S. and Euro...

    Authors: Brian Kittler, Inge Stupak and C. Tattersall Smith
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:23
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  41. In response to climate change challenges, a main policy emphasis is on transitioning the energy system from high- to low-carbon energy supply. The German energy transition is first and foremost based on politi...

    Authors: Dirk Scheer, Marion Dreyer, Maike Schmidt, Lisa Schmieder and Annika Arnold
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:36
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  42. Currently, most of the world’s population lives in cities, and the rapid urbanization of the population is driving increases in the demand for products, goods and services. To effectively design policies for u...

    Authors: Clara Inés Pardo Martínez, William Alfonso Piña, Angelo Facchini and Alexander Cotte Poveda
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:24
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  44. By 2030, the German transport sector needs to achieve additional greenhouse gas savings of 67 million tonnes CO2-eq. and further progress requires swiftly implementable solutions. The fermentation of cereal straw...

    Authors: André Brosowski, Ralf Bill and Daniela Thrän
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:42
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  45. Temuco and Padre Las Casas, Chile, have severe problems of air pollution due to the extensive use of firewood for heating. The local authorities have made various efforts to improve fuel quality and introduce ...

    Authors: Boris Álvarez, Àlex Boso, Ignacio Rodríguez, Álvaro Hofflinger and Arturo Vallejos-Romero
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:29
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  47. Alternative fuels made from biomass or CO2 and water using renewable energy can reduce CO2 and pollutant emissions compared to fossil-based mobility and thus support a transition to a more sustainable transport. ...

    Authors: Anika Linzenich, Dominik Bongartz, Katrin Arning and Martina Ziefle
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:35
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. This article examines the scope of voluntary certification schemes, based on the sustainability criteria of the European Renewable Energy Directive for biofuel production in the context of social sustainabilit...

    Authors: Anna Mohr and Linda Bausch
    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:6
    Content type: Original article Published on:
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