Editorials

Policy should pay closer attention to the increasing body of research on the links between energy, climate and health.

Recovery efforts in the wake of COVID-19 must invest in energy systems that will prove cleaner and more resilient in the face of future disasters.

Energy is consumed in social environments and in the presence of social peers. But social interactions do not just happen alongside energy behaviour — the two are intrinsically linked.

More frequent and graver extreme events continue to remind us of the perils of climate change, but systematic consideration of these extremes in energy systems studies and full accounting of their impacts remains a challenge.

Although several companies are now working on the industrialization of perovskite solar cells, important questions around module reliability remain.

The humanitarian aid sector is transforming the ways it uses and deploys energy as crises become more complex and the effects of climate change are increasingly felt.

The revolutionary work of John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino has finally been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Scientific discovery and engineering brilliance continue to shape battery technology.

This month Nature Energy introduces Policy Briefs, a new article type to help researchers and policymakers engage over studies that have implications for policy.

Production of fuels from water and CO₂ using renewable energy could provide energy storage solutions and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. This month, we showcase recent efforts to advance understanding in this area.

China is the biggest manufacturer of solar photovoltaics, and with declining local costs coupled with potential pollution reduction and health co-benefits, domestic use of solar photovoltaics might surge even more dramatically in the very near future.

With the various impacts of conference attendance evermore on our minds, there are many things we can do to get more out of them.

Coal is increasingly falling out of favour in the face of cheaper alternatives and concerns about health.

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The rapid growth of lithium-ion batteries in many markets makes it increasingly urgent to address recycling of strategic materials from spent batteries.

Recent progress demonstrates the potential of hydrogen as a vector for decarbonization in different sectors of the energy system, but continued support is required to avoid losing momentum in delivering solutions to climate and energy goals.

As the yellow vests protests in France continue despite rollback of planned fuel taxes, energy science and policy will have to rethink how they look at social unrest.

This year marks ten years of organic–inorganic perovskite solar cell research. Now, after achieving remarkable gains in performance, applications are starting to make their way out of research laboratories into the real world.

Mounting calls for action on low-carbon heating and cooling systems are welcome, but we must move beyond only talking about it.

Enacting structural changes to systems that reinforce existing gender norms is a critical step that we must undertake in academia.

Behavioural interventions are an important instrument in the energy-policy toolkit. However, researchers and policymakers should consider their own bounded rationality in these efforts.