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Emissions scenarios without measures 1990-2030

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Bettina Schäppi

The goal of this study is to estimate the net impact of all measures implemented in the context of the Swiss energy and climate policies on CO2 emissions from combustion processes between 1990 and 2030. The study provides a projection of CO2 emissions unti ...

INFRAS EPFL2016

Optimal use of biomass in large-scale energy systems: insights for energy policy

François Maréchal, Stefano Moret, Emanuela Peduzzi, Victor Codina Gironès, Marco Nasato

Biomass chemical conversion processes allow the production of solid, liquid and gaseous biofuels, which can substitute almost any kind of fossil fuel and the associated greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this potential, high investment costs and conversion ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Towards a pre-design method for low carbon architectural strategies

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Arianna Brambilla, Stefano Cozza

To face climate change, Switzerland proposes the 2050 energy strategy by fixing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for the built environment. Designers will then have to increase operating performances while inimizing embodied impacts. This represents a ...

2016

How green or environmentally friendly urban areas are in comparison with rural areas is a topic that has received much attention in recent years. This is understandable because urban areas already emit around 70% of the global greenhouse gases. This percen ...

2015

Exergy and environmental comparison of the end use of vehicle fuels: The Brazilian case

In this work, a comparative exergy and environmental analysis of the vehicle fuel end use is presented. This analysis comprises petroleum and natural gas derivatives (including hydrogen), biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel), and their mixtures, besides of the ...

2015

Basel on its way to the 2000-Watt-Society

Energy demand and renewable potentials need to be synchronized in time and space. Energy has to be provided at the right place at the time of demand and in the quantity needed. This means, that a spatial model of the region has to be elaborated that is bas ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

Exergy and Environmental Comparison of the End Use of Vehicle Fuels: The Brazilian Case

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

ABCM2014

Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on the Energy Sector: a Swiss perspective

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

When speaking of energy production and consumption in the context of climate change, the interest usually lies in mitigation policies and measures, i.e. the energy system is seen as an emitter of greenhouse gases. This paper takes a different approach and ...

2012

Life cycle assessment of biofuels: Energy and greenhouse gas balances

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat, Luis Alberto Panichelli, Juan David Villegas Gomez

The promotion of biofuels as energy for transportation in the industrialized countries is mainly driven by the perspective of oil depletion, the concerns about energy security and global warming. However due to sustainability constraints, biofuels will rep ...

2009

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In Switzerland, as in many other OECD countries, transportation and housing are responsible for the major part of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the framework of the assessment of the policies envisaged in Switzerland for the revision of the CO2-Law fo ...

2009