The chapter on district heating and cooling, which discusses the advantages of centralized heat distribution systems using various energy sources to support multiple users, aligns with UN SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) by promoting energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and potentially lowering utility costs for users.

The transport of hydrogen and hydrogen carriers aligns with sustainability and the UN SDGs by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting energy efficiency, contributing to goals related to clean energy and climate action. Additionally, it creates economic opportunities, fosters innovation, and enhances energy security, supporting goals related to economic growth and infrastructure development.

The Leaders Summit is the UN Global Compact’s dynamic day-long conference dedicated to providing the tools, network, knowledge, and inspiration needed to scale the impact of private sector contribu

This One Earth Research Article shows how increasing urbanization & land use change is contributing to warmer temperatures at regional and continental scales. The results have important implications regarding the need for climate mitigation and adaptation (SDG 13), urban planning (SDG 11) and the terrestrial biosphere (SDG 15).

This article focuses on numerous plot, field, and regional scale studies conducted in the Critical Zone Observatories (CZO) facilities distributed across the China Loess Plateau (CLP). The CLP CZO features the world's largest and deepest loess deposits, highly disturbed by human activities, and consists of a longitudinal series of monitoring sites.