About the Authors

Ali Alsamawi

alia@physics.usyd.edu.au

Affiliation Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Joy Murray

Affiliation Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Manfred Lenzen

Affiliation Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Daniel Moran

Affiliation Programme for Industrial Ecology, Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

Keiichiro Kanemoto

Affiliation Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA ML. Performed the experiments: AA DM KK ML. Analyzed the data: AA JM ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA DM KK ML. Wrote the paper: AA JM ML.