Ryna Cui

Biographic Data

ID6821007
NAMERyna Cui
GIVEN NAMESRyna
FAMILY NAMECui
SIGNATURECUI R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ORCID0000-0002-1186-8230
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States

    Open AccessXinyuan Huang, Wei Peng et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies including Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Current Biology, AJHG, and the Trends Journals

  • Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints

    Open AccessChristoph Bertram, Elina Brutschin et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2024

    Despite faster-than-expected progress in clean energy technology deployment, global annual CO 2 emissions have increased from 2020 to 2023. The feasibility of limiting warming to 1.5 °C is therefore questioned. Here we present a model intercomparison study that accounts for emissions trends until 2023 and compares cost-effective scenarios to alternative scenarios with institutional, geophysical and technological feasibility constraints and enable…

  • Coal transitions—part 2

    Open AccessJan C Minx, Jérôme Hilaire et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    A rapid phase-out of unabated coal use is essential to limit global warming to below 2 °C. This review presents a comprehensive assessment of coal transitions in mitigation scenarios consistent with the Paris Agreement, using data from more than 1500 publicly available scenarios generated by more than 30 integrated assessment models. Our ensemble analysis uses clustering techniques to categorize coal transition pathways in models and bridges evid…

  • Provincial-scale assessment of direct air capture to meet China’s climate neutrality goal under limited bioenergy supply

    Open AccessHanwoong Kim, Yang Qiu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    China has large, estimated potential for direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS) but its deployment locations and impacts at the subnational scale remain unclear. This is largely because higher spatial resolution studies on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in China have focused mainly on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. This study uses a spatially detailed integrated energy-economy-climate model to evaluate DACCS for 31 provinces in C…

  • Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy

    Open AccessAman Malik, Vaibhav Chaturvedi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    To help meet its near-term NDC goals and long-term net-zero 2070 target, the Government of India has planned to establish a Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), i.e. a domestic emission trading scheme (ETS). An ETS is an inherently cost-effective policy instrument for emission reduction, providing the greatest flexibility to reduce emissions from within and across sectors. An effective ETS requires design features that consider country-specific c…

  • Taking stock of nationally determined contributions

    Open AccessGokul Iyer, Ryna Cui et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

  • Quantifying the regional stranded asset risks from new coal plants under 1.5 °C

    Open AccessMorgan R Edwards, Ryna Cui et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Momentum to phase out unabated coal use is growing globally. This transition is critical to meeting the Paris climate goals but can potentially lead to large amounts of stranded assets, especially in regions with newer and growing coal fleets. Here we combine plant-level data with a global integrated assessment model to quantify changes in global stranded asset risks from coal-fired power plants across regions and over time. With new plant propos…

  • Coal transitions—part 1

    Open AccessFrancesca Diluiso, Paula Walk et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    A rapid coal phase-out is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, but is hindered by serious challenges ranging from vested interests to the risks of social disruption. To understand how to organize a global coal phase-out, it is crucial to go beyond cost-effective climate mitigation scenarios and learn from the experience of previous coal transitions. Despite the relevance of the topic, evidence remains fragmented throughout different r…

  • Integrated assessment model diagnostics

    Open AccessMathijs Harmsen, Elmar Kriegler et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Integrated assessment models (IAMs) form a prime tool in informing about climate mitigation strategies. Diagnostic indicators that allow comparison across these models can help describe and explain differences in model projections. This increases transparency and comparability. Earlier, the IAM community has developed an approach to diagnose models (Kriegler (2015 Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 90 45–61)). Here we build on this, by proposing a se…

  • GCAM v5.1

    Open AccessKatherine Calvin, Pralit Patel et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2019

    This paper describes GCAM v5.1, an open source model that represents the linkages between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems. GCAM is a market equilibrium model, is global in scope, and operates from 1990 to 2100 in 5-year time steps. It can be used to examine, for example, how changes in population, income, or technology cost might alter crop production, energy demand, or water withdrawals, or how changes in one region's demand f…

  • Regional responses to future, demand-driven water scarcity

    Open AccessRyna Cui, Ryna Yiyun Cui et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    This paper explores regional response strategies to potential water scarcity. Using a model of integrated human-earth system dynamics (GCAM), we test a wide range of alternate water demand scenarios to explore regional response strategies. We create a typology that categorizes countries and basins according to their responses in electricity and agriculture to potential water scarcity. Three different categories are found. First, little response i…