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Carbon accounting

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Belgian Energy Transition: What Are the Options?

Different scenarios at different scales must be studied to help define long term policies to decarbonate our societies. In this work, we analyse the Belgian energy system in 2035 for different carbon emission targets, and accounting for electricity, heat, ...

2020

A review of approaches to low-carbon transition of high-rise residential buildings in China

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Yi Wang

In developing countries with a large population and fast urbanization, High-rise Residential Buildings (HRBs) have unavoidably become a very common, if not the most, accommodation solution. The paradigm of HRB energy consumption is characterized by high-de ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

A low emission scenario for Europe powered by lifestyle changes

Vincent Moreau, Luis Costa

Decision makers recognize the importance of lifestyle changes in reaching low emission targets but how the abatement potential of changes in diets, mobility or housing compare to ambitious technical measures in the transition toward decarbonisation, is not ...

2020

Data-driven method for low-carbon building design at early stages

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The Paris agreement on climate change called for carbon neutrality as of 2050. The built environment is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect, representing 39% of global emissions. As a result, this sector is targeted by green standards an ...

EPFL2020

Exploring the Robustness of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Renovation Scenarios to Climate Change Perspectives: Results for a multi-family building in the Swiss context

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Émilie Nault

Building renovation is one of the main strategies put forth in western countries, where energy regulations are becoming increasingly demanding. Switzerland for example has set the ambitious target aiming at carbon neutrality for 2050. Building-integrated p ...

2020

Dissolved major and trace geochemical dynamics in Antarctic lacustrine systems

Tyler Joe Kohler

Clearwater Mesa Uames Ross Island, northeast Antarctic Peninsula) provides a unique opportunity to study solute dynamics and geochemical weathering in the pristine lacustrine systems of a high latitude environment. In order to determine major controls on t ...

2020

In Silico Discovery of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Johanna Maria Huck, Kathryn Suzanne Deeg, Daiane Damasceno Borges, Nakul Rampal

We screen a database of more than 69 000 hypothetical covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for carbon capture using parasitic energy as a metric. To compute CO2-framework interactions in molecular simulations, we develop a genetic algorithm to tune the charg ...

2020

Assessment of lifestyle changes for greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Switzerland

In light of the climate change crisis, this study looks at what actions can be done by individuals in Switzerland to reduce their carbon footprint. A total of 40 actions spanned over 6 areas of consumption (food, housing, mobility, at home leisure activiti ...

2020

Underground Pumped Storage Hydropower Case Studies in Belgium: Perspectives and Challenges

Elena Vagnoni, Alessandro Morabito

To avoid the geographical and topographical prerequisites of the conventional pumped hydro energy storage, the use of underground cavities as water reservoirs allows countries without steep topography, such as Belgium, to increase the potential of the ener ...

MDPI2020

Office densification effects on comfort, energy, and carbon lifecycle performance: An integrated and exploratory study

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Cédric Liardet

Generally, the environmental impacts of buildings are benchmarked per square meter as a functional unit. However, this practice prevents developing a user-centered approach in which performance is linked to real usage and not building size. Currently, the ...

2020

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