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2026

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90
Citations
30748
World Ranking
589
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Edgar G. Hertwich is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research spans multiple fields related to environmental science and engineering, with a focus on sustainability and the environmental impacts of material and energy use.

The main fields of study associated with their work are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Within these fields, Hertwich has contributed significantly to several subfields including:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Building and Construction
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Their research topics frequently include:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Edgar G. Hertwich has been published regularly in a number of scientific journals and publication venues, notably:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change

Notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Hertwich include:

  • Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Global scenarios of resource and emission savings from material efficiency in residential buildings and cars (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • Consideration of culture is vital if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (2021, One Earth)
  • Carbon Leakage, Consumption, and Trade (2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources)

Frequent collaborators with Hertwich include:

  • Peter Berrill
  • Paul Wolfram
  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • Niko Heeren
  • Tomer Fishman

Best Publications

  • Carbon Footprint of Nations: A Global, Trade-Linked Analysis

    Edgar G. Hertwich;Glen P. Peters

  • CO2 embodied in international trade with implications for global climate policy.

    Glen P. Peters;Edgar G. Hertwich

  • Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption

    Diana Ivanova;Konstantin Stadler;Kjartan Steen-Olsen;Richard Wood

  • Consumption and the Rebound Effect: An Industrial Ecology Perspective

    Edgar G. Hertwich

  • Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies.

    Edgar G. Hertwich;Thomas Gibon;Evert A. Bouman;Anders Arvesen

  • Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change

    Felix Creutzig;Joyashree Roy;William F. Lamb;Inês M. L. Azevedo

  • CO2 emissions from biomass combustion for bioenergy: atmospheric decay and contribution to global warming

    Francesco Cherubini;Glen Philip Peters;Terje Koren Berntsen;Anders Hammer Strømman

  • Affluence drives the global displacement of land use

    Jan Weinzettel;Edgar G. Hertwich;Glen P. Peters;Kjartan Steen-Olsen

  • Post-Kyoto greenhouse gas inventories: production versus consumption

    Glen P. Peters;Edgar G. Hertwich

  • Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Consumption: A Critical Review

    Edgar G Hertwich

  • Understanding future emissions from low-carbon power systems by integration of life-cycle assessment and integrated energy modelling

    Michaja Pehl;Anders Arvesen;Florian Humpenöder;Alexander Popp

  • Carbon, Land, and Water Footprint Accounts for the European Union: Consumption, Production, and Displacements through International Trade

    Kjartan Steen-Olsen;Jan Weinzettel;Gemma Cranston;A. Ertug Ercin

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

    Edgar G. Hertwich;Saleem Ali;Luca Ciacci;Tomer Fishman;Tomer Fishman

  • Pollution embodied in trade: The Norwegian case

    Glen P. Peters;Edgar G. Hertwich

  • Annex III - Technology-specific cost and performance parameters

    Thomas Bruckner;Lew Fulton;Edgar Hertwich;Alan McKinnon

  • Life-Cycle Impact Assessment: Striving towards Best Practice

    H.A Udo de Haes;G Finnveden;M Goedkoop;M Hauschild

  • Mapping the carbon footprint of EU regions

    Diana Ivanova;Gibran Vita;Kjartan Steen-Olsen;Konstantin Stadler

  • Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies

    Gunnar Luderer;Michaja Pehl;Anders Arvesen;Thomas Gibon

  • Evaluation of process- and input-output-based life cycle inventory data with regard to truncation and aggregation issues.

    Guillaume Majeau-Bettez;Anders Hammer Strømman;Edgar G Hertwich

  • Human toxicity potentials for life-cycle assessment and toxics release inventory risk screening.

    Edgar G. Hertwich;Sarah F. Mateles;William S. Pease;Thomas E. McKone

  • Life cycle assessment of a floating offshore wind turbine

    Jan Weinzettel;Jan Weinzettel;Marte Reenaas;Christian Solli;Edgar G. Hertwich

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Hammer Strømman
Anders Hammer Strømman Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Richard Wood
Richard Wood Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Glen P. Peters
Glen P. Peters Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Stefan Pauliuk
Stefan Pauliuk University of Freiburg
Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Mark A. J. Huijbregts Radboud University
Andrea Ramírez
Andrea Ramírez Delft University of Technology
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Thomas E. McKone
Thomas E. McKone University of California, Berkeley
Sangwon Suh
Sangwon Suh University of California, Santa Barbara
Christian A. Klöckner
Christian A. Klöckner Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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