How energy facilitates human need satisfaction, for whom, and with what wellbeing outcomes is under-researched. We address this gap by investigating the relationship between household energy footprint and well-being in the UK. Our results show car and air transportation contributed the most to...

Equitable climate policies are required for a just and rapid energy transition. Here we model a novel carbon tax design accounting for the distribution of household consumption and carbon footprints across 88 countries covering the global north and south. The policy distinguishes luxury and...

We focus on three questions: one, what have been the quantitative dynamics and the main drivers of the global use of natural resources (energy and materials) in the past century? Two, how will these trends continue over the next decades, and what would be more sustainable scenarios? In other...