Environmental Research Letters,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
15(6), P. 065003 - 065003
Published: March 27, 2020
Abstract
Strategies
toward
ambitious
climate
targets
usually
rely
on
the
concept
of
‘decoupling’;
that
is,
they
aim
at
promoting
economic
growth
while
reducing
use
natural
resources
and
GHG
emissions.
GDP
coinciding
with
absolute
reductions
in
emissions
or
resource
is
denoted
as
‘absolute
decoupling’,
opposed
to
‘relative
where
increase
less
so
than
does
GDP.
Based
bibliometric
mapping
part
I
(Wiedenhofer
et
al
,
2020
Environ.
Res.
Lett.
15
063002
),
we
synthesize
evidence
emerging
from
selected
835
peer-reviewed
articles.
We
evaluate
empirical
studies
decoupling
related
final/useful
energy,
exergy,
material
resources,
well
CO
2
total
find
relative
frequent
for
but
not
useful
a
quality-based
measure
energy
use.
Primary
can
be
decoupled
largely
extent
which
conversion
primary
exergy
improved.
Examples
long-term
are
rare,
recently
some
industrialized
countries
have
both
production-
and,
weaklier,
consumption-based
analyze
policies
strategies
literature
by
classifying
them
into
three
groups:
(1)
Green
growth,
if
sufficient
were
deemed
possible
without
altering
trajectory.
(2)
Degrowth,
given
priority
over
growth.
(3)
Others,
e.g.
role
was
analyzed
reference
change
mitigation.
conclude
large
rapid
cannot
achieved
through
observed
rates,
hence
needs
complemented
sufficiency-oriented
strict
enforcement
reduction
targets.
More
research
needed
interdependencies
between
wellbeing,
