{"title":"Quantifying the trade-offs in global energy transitions: How economic growth undermines carbon targets and sustainable surplus energy","authors":"Zs. Szalóczy, A. Gelencsér, Á. Rostási, J. Abonyi","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.116027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.116027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces the Sustainable Worldwide Energy Transition (SWET) model to assess the feasibility of global energy transitions under varying economic growth scenarios. The model uniquely incorporates energy costs for ecosystem maintenance, carbon dioxide removal, and renewable infrastructure deployment. By testing 21 different situations that mix three IEA energy plans and seven global GDP growth rates (from −3 % to +3 % each year), the findings show that continuous economic growth cannot align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. For example, a 3 % annual GDP growth scenario results in cumulative carbon emissions exceeding 2000 GtCO<sub>2</sub>eq by 2060—far above the 2 °C budget. In degrowth scenarios, sustainable surplus energy per capita drops to as low as 15–25 GJ/year, which is at minimum living energy thresholds. The findings indicate that economic growth, rather than technology rollout speed, is the primary driver of long-term carbon emissions. To maintain climate safety and social viability, a managed reduction in economic throughput is necessary. This study introduces a novel framework for quantifying global energy transition trade-offs and calls for prioritizing climate policy over conventional growth metrics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"223 ","pages":"Article 116027"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ferdinand Woge, Muyuan Wang, Brandon White, Neil Kiame, Maxime A. Siegler, Travis Dudding*, Cody Ross Pitts* and Thomas Lectka*,
{"title":"","authors":"Ferdinand Woge, Muyuan Wang, Brandon White, Neil Kiame, Maxime A. Siegler, Travis Dudding*, Cody Ross Pitts* and Thomas Lectka*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":57,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"90 26","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.joc.5c00819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bao-Qin Huang, Xin-Xiang Xu, Bing-Hao Wu, Yong Zou, Xue-Jing Zhang* and Ming Yan*,
{"title":"","authors":"Bao-Qin Huang, Xin-Xiang Xu, Bing-Hao Wu, Yong Zou, Xue-Jing Zhang* and Ming Yan*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":57,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"90 26","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.joc.5c01106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dustin Mauldin, Ha Nguyen, Ernest Brubaker, Maxwell Mattejat, Giorgiana Franzese, Calvin Hamerski and Jeremy B. Morgan*,
{"title":"","authors":"Dustin Mauldin, Ha Nguyen, Ernest Brubaker, Maxwell Mattejat, Giorgiana Franzese, Calvin Hamerski and Jeremy B. Morgan*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":57,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"90 26","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.joc.5c00816","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mambatta Haritha, Sherin S. Ameena and Cherumuttathu H. Suresh*,
{"title":"","authors":"Mambatta Haritha, Sherin S. Ameena and Cherumuttathu H. Suresh*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":57,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"90 26","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.joc.5c00814","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huiru Yang , Linyuan Zhou , Changwei Hu , Hermenegildo Garcia
{"title":"Catalytic applications of bimetallic molybdenum nitrides in biomass conversion: Recent advances, challenges and opportunities","authors":"Huiru Yang , Linyuan Zhou , Changwei Hu , Hermenegildo Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.116042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.116042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current energy crisis, along with massive atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> emissions caused by fossil fuel combustion, motivates researchers to search for renewable alternative energy sources with minimal climate impact. Biomass emerges as a promising low-carbon feedstock for biofuel and chemical production, though its efficient conversion requires advanced catalytic systems with high efficiency and stability. Molybdenum nitride-based catalysts, particularly bimetallic variants, have shown exceptional promise in this regard. This study performed a PRISMA systematic review of recent advances in molybdenum nitrides catalysts for biomass conversion, covering the synthetic strategies for tailoring structural and electronic properties through phase control, morphology engineering, metal atom embedding and heteroatom doping etc. The structure-activity relationships in the selective cleavage of C-C/C-O bond with diverse active sites and emerging applications of molybdenum nitrides as catalytic supports are also proposed. This review critically analyzes the unique performance of molybdenum nitrides in biomass conversion for producing bio-fuel and chemicals. Key research frontiers such as active site characterization, catalyst reconstruction mechanisms, regeneration protocols, <em>in situ</em> spectroscopy, and machine learning-assisted design etc. are also proposed to promote the future design and development of multi-metallic molybdenum nitride. The systematic insights provided aim to guide future development of multi-metallic molybdenum nitride catalysts for sustainable biorefining.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"223 ","pages":"Article 116042"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Abidemi Oluwole, Welday Desta Weldu, Christian Agatemor
{"title":"Hydrophobicity-Driven Enhancement of Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquid Hybrid Solvents.","authors":"Samuel Abidemi Oluwole, Welday Desta Weldu, Christian Agatemor","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c01687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c01687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intermolecular interactions play a fundamental role in the properties of materials, including solvents. Yet, the complex interplay between these interactions, specifically hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonding (H-bonding), in liquids, such as the emerging class of ionic liquid hybrid solvents (ILHSs), where these interactions coexist, remains to be fully grasped. Understanding these interactions is crucial for designing new ILHSs and optimizing their performance. Here, we used orthogonal techniques to elucidate the interplay between hydrophobicity and H-bonding in ILHSs composed of ionic components, choline and geranate, and a terpenoid molecular solvent. Our findings reveal a counterintuitive strengthening of H-bond networks with increasing molecular hydrophobicity, uncovered through integrated spectroscopic, calorimetric, and DFT analyses. This insight provides a new framework for understanding how molecular-scale hydrophobicity modulates mesoscopic organization in complex fluids and structured solvents, with implications for enhanced nanoscale organization, biologic encapsulation, and the rational design of ILHSs for applications such as catalysis and drug delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144558509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Artem Khegay, and , Dennis G. Hall*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":57,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"90 26","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.joc.5c01094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}