Sebastian Rauner

Biographic Data

ID6819913
NAMESebastian Rauner
GIVEN NAMESSebastian
FAMILY NAMERauner
SIGNATURERAUNER S
AFFILIATIONSLeibniz Association
ORCID0000-0001-7618-9426
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios

    Open AccessJarmo Kikstra, Vassilis Daioglou et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Social and environmental agendas are intricately connected and shape the international policy discourse. To support these discussions, we present a framework for interpreting global scenario outcomes on energy demand and supply-side transitions through the lens of societal well-being and minimum resource requirements. We develop and apply a new model called Decent living standards and the Environment in Scenarios considering Inequality and Resour…

  • Multiple pathways towards sustainable development goals and climate targets

    Open AccessBjoern Soergel, Sebastian Rauner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate target require a holistic transformation towards human well-being within planetary boundaries. However, there are growing debates on how to best pursue these targets. Proposed transformation strategies include market- and technology-driven green-growth, shifting towards a sufficiency-oriented post-growth economy, and a transformation driven primarily by strong government action. He…

  • The impact of energy sector pollution on human development and inequality amidst climate change

    Open AccessSebastian Rauner, Franziska Piontek et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The provision of energy is a primary contributor to climate change and environmental pollution, the latter including air pollution from aerosol emissions and a broad range of other human health effects and ecosystem damages. At the same time, aerosol emissions also reduce radiative forcing, leading to a masking of part of the warming due to rising CO 2 concentrations and temporarily reducing the adverse impacts of climate change. Using an energy-…

  • Food and land system transformations under different societal perspectives on sustainable development

    Open AccessIsabelle Weindl, Bjoern Soergel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The future of food and land systems is crucial for achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals, given their essential role in providing adequate nutrition and their significant impact on Earth system processes. Despite widespread consensus on the need for transformation, discussed strategies vary widely, from technology-driven to sufficiency-focused approaches, emphasizing different agents of change and policy mixes. This study assesses t…

  • Life-cycle impacts from different decarbonization pathways for the European car fleet

    Open AccessAlois Dirnaichner, Marianna Rottoli et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    For light-duty vehicles (LDVs), alternative powertrains and liquid fuels based on renewable electricity are competing options considered by policymakers and stakeholders for achieving necessary CO 2 emission reductions in the transport sector. While the urgency of climate change and the need to reach mitigation targets are well understood, system-wide implications along other sustainability dimensions need further exploration. We integrate a deta…

  • A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda

    Open AccessBjoern Soergel, Elmar Kriegler et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • Integrate health into decision-making to foster climate action

    Open AccessToon Vandyck, Sebastian Rauner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic reveals that societies place a high value on healthy lives. Leveraging this momentum to establish a more central role for human health in the policy process will provide further impetus to a sustainable transformation of energy and food systems

  • Coal-exit health and environmental damage reductions outweigh economic impacts

    Open AccessSebastian Rauner, Nico Bauer et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2020

  • Holistic energy system modeling combining multi-objective optimization and life cycle assessment

    Open AccessSebastian Rauner, Maik BudzinskiARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Making the global energy system more sustainable has emerged as a major societal concern and policy objective. This transition comes with various challenges and opportunities for a sustainable evolution affecting most of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We therefore propose broadening the current metrics for sustainability in the energy system modeling field by using industrial ecology techniques to account for a conclusive set of indicato…