PUBLICATIONS
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Journal articles
- Takuma Watari, Stephen Northey, Damien Giurco, Sho Hata, Ryosuke Yokoi, Keisuke Nansai, and Kenichi Nakajima (2022)
Global copper cycles and greenhouse gas emissions in a 1.5 °C world
Resource Conservation and Recycling, 179, 106118
- Ryosuke Yokoi, Takuma Watari, and Masaharu Motoshita (2022)
Future greenhouse gas emissions from metal production: gaps and opportunities towards climate goals
Energy and Environmental Science, 15, 146-157
- Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai and Kenichi Nakajima (2021)
Contraction and convergence of in-use metal stocks to meet climate goals
Global Environmental Change, 69, 102284
- Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai, Kenichi Nakajima, and Damien Giurco (2021)
Sustainable energy transitions require enhanced resource governance
Journal of Cleaner Production, 312, 20, 127698
- Takuma Watari and Ryosuke Yokoi (2021)
International inequality in in-use metal stocks: What it portends for the future
Resources Policy, 70, 101968
- Ryosuke Yokoi, Keisuke Nansai, Kenichi Nakajima, Takuma Watari and Masaharu Motoshita (2021)
Responsibility of Consumers for Mining Capacity: Decomposition Analysis of Scarcity-weighted Metal Footprints in the Case of Japan
iScience, 24, 1, 102025
- Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai and Kenichi Nakajima (2021)
Major metals demand, supply, and environmental impacts to 2100: A critical review
Resource Conservation and Recycling, 164, 105107
- Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai, Damien Giurco, Kenichi Nakajima, Benjamin McLellan and Christoph Helbig (2020)
Global Metal Use Targets in Line with Climate Goals
Environmental Science and Technology, 54(19), 12476-12483
- Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai and Kenichi Nakajima (2020)
Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements
Resource Conservation and Recycling, 155, 104669
- Benjamin McLellan, Takuma Watari, Seiichi Ogata and Tetsuo Tezuka (2019)
Resources-energy-development nexus and its implications for achieving the SDGs in Asia
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 136, 1
- Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai, Kenichi Nakajima, Benjamin McLellan, Elsa Dominish and Damien Giurco (2019)
Integrating Circular Economy Strategies with Low-Carbon Scenarios: Lithium Use in Electric Vehicles
Environmental Science and Technology, 53, 20, 11657-11665
- Takuma Watari, Benjamin McLellan, Damien Giurco, Elsa Dominish, Eiji Yamasue and Keisuke Nansai (2019)
Total material requirement for the global energy transition to 2050: A focus on transport and electricity
Resource Conservation and Recycling, 148, 91-103
- Takuma Watari, Benjamin McLellan, Seiichi Ogata and Tetsuo Tezuka (2018)
Analysis of Potential for Critical Metal Resource Constraints in the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Energy Scenarios
Minerals, 8(4), 156
Book chapters
- Damien Giurco, Elsa Dominish, Nick Florin, Takuma Watari and Benjamin McLellan (2019)
Requirements for Minerals and Metals for 100% RE Scenarios
In Teske, S. (Eds) “Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals: Global and Regional 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios to achieve the Paris Agreement Goals with non-energy GHG pathways for +1.5℃ and +2.0℃”, Springer
Invited lectures/talks
- Takuma Watari “Critical material risks in the global energy transition”, 9th Japan-U.S. Bilateral Meeting on Rare Metals, 2022/3/10
- Takuma Watari “The role of critical minerals and resource governance in sustainable energy transitions”,
Australia Japan Symposium: Critical minerals for climate change mitigation – Reducing risks in lithium supply chains, 2021/12/10
- Takuma Watari “Metal production, utilization, and recycling systems in a carbon-neutral world”,
Metal Economics Research Institute, Japan, 2021/11/10
- Takuma Watari “The impact of carbon constraints on global metal cycles”,
JX Nippon Research Institute for Technology & Strategy Co., 2021/10/11
- Takuma Watari “Contraction and convergence of metal stocks”,
The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, 2021/9/3
- Takuma Watari “Critical materials demand in the green transition: a review”,
ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference, 2020/10/9
Dissertations
- Takuma Watari (2021) “Global Metal Cycles in a Carbon-Constrained World”, Doctoral Thesis
- Takuma Watari (2019) “Critical Metal Supply Risks in Low-Carbon Energy Transitions”, Master Thesis