Each year, our editorial team and advisory boards review the nearly 2000 papers published across the pages of ES&T to identify those that exemplify the best of our journal: excellence in rigor, novelty, and impact. The 2024 Best Paper Award recipients reflect these values─and more. These papers offer new insights and practical pathways across a range of urgent topics: climate change, air and water quality, chemical fate and transport, and sustainable technologies.
Awarded paper
- Takuma Watari, Naho Yamashita, and André Cabrera Serrenho (2024)
Net-zero embodied carbon in buildings with today’s available technologies
Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 4, 1793-1801