Paul Wolfram

Biographic Data

ID6930010
NAMEPaul Wolfram
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEWolfram
SIGNATUREWOLFRAM P
AFFILIATIONSJoint Global Change Research Institute
ORCID0000-0002-8470-427X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Ensuring consistency between biogeochemical planetary boundaries

    Open AccessPaul Wolfram, Hassan Niazi et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026References: 4

  • The hydrogen economy can reduce costs of climate change mitigation by up to 22

    Open AccessPaul Wolfram, Page Kyle et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

    In response to the urgent need to mitigate climate change via net-zero targets, many nations are renewing their interest in clean hydrogen as a net-zero energy carrier. Although clean hydrogen can be directly used in various sectors for deep decarbonization, the relatively low energy density and high production costs have raised doubts as to whether clean hydrogen development is worthwhile. Here, we improve on the GCAM model by including a more c…

  • Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia

    Open AccessPaul Wolfram, Patrick O’Rourke et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The war in Ukraine caused Europe to more than double its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in only one year. In addition, imported LNG remains a crucial source of energy for resource-poor countries, such as Japan, where LNG imports satisfy about a quarter of the country’s primary energy demand. However, an increasing number of countries are formulating stringent decarbonization plans. Liquefied hydrogen and liquefied ammonia coupled with car…

  • Linking service provision to material cycles

    Open AccessStefan Pauliuk, Tomer Fishman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    Material production accounts for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions. More efficient use of materials—through decoupling of services that support human well‐being from material use—is imperative as other emission mitigation options are expensive. An interdisciplinary scientific assessment of material efficiency and its links to service provision, material cycle management, and climate policy is needed to identify effective strategies and help des…

  • Material efficiency and climate change mitigation of passenger vehicles

    Open AccessPaul Wolfram, Qingshi Tu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    A transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy is currently underway but may not be rapid enough in order to reach ambitious climate change mitigation targets. Therefore, additional, preferably instantaneous, measures are needed for quick emission reductions, which is where material efficiency (ME) could constitute a promising solution. ME strategies include but are not limited to vehicle lightweighting through material substitution, incr…

  • A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling

    Open AccessTomer Fishman, Niko Heeren et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    Scenario-based assessments are a useful tool to explore unknown futures and inform decision makers and the public of the consequences of different courses of action. Scenario developments in industrial ecology have focused on disparate components of the socioeconomic metabolism and case studies, and few efforts of comprehensive and cumulative scenario formulation are documented. Many important, empirically derived relationships between material c…

  • Method for endogenizing capital in the United States Environmentally‐Extended Input‐Output model

    Open AccessT Reed Miller, Peter Berrill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    Each year businesses, governments, and homeowners in the United States invest around one fifth of gross domestic product into the creation of capital assets such as buildings, machinery, and software to enable production and consumption. Use of capital is typically included to some extent in environmental life cycle assessments of goods and services but is not incorporated into most environmentally extended input‐output (EEIO) models, including t…

  • Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

    Open AccessEdgar G Hertwich, Saleem H Ali et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the renewed interest of policy makers in the circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing of and lifetime extension for products, reuse and recycling of materials, and appropriate material choic…