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Provision of housing services within planetary limits: A methodological framework for the urban circular economy

The provision of decent housing for all is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) and a fundamental human right. However, the construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and 40% of global CO2 emissions are attributed to housing ...

2023

Maximising Climate and Employment Benefits From COVID-19 Recovery Packages: A Multi-Model Assessment of Optimal Clean Technology Portfolios

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts, scientists and policymakers alike have been advocating for green recovery packages focusing on clean energy technologies, to align economic recovery with climate change mitigation. In t ...

SSRN Paper2022

The challenges of studying change in carbon-intensive urban consumption practices: Exploring the dynamics of practice change and of normative considerations in knowledge production

Franziska Meinherz

Problem. To reach international greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, the carbon intensity of urban resource and energy consumption must be reduced. Technological innovation alone is not sufficient: The practices that constitute urban household demand for ...

EPFL2021

Flexibility for large-scale deployment of PV systems in low-voltage grids

Jordan Holweger

To meet the net-zero emission target by 2050, Switzerland must install between 34 and 50 GW of distributed photovoltaic (PV). The inherent challenge with such an extensive integration of stochastic generation is to provide the flexibility for balancing sup ...

EPFL2021

Why it is so hard to lower greenhouse gas emissions – The economics and politics against climate change mitigation

Philippe Thalmann

There are many reasons why the scientific community has a hard time agreeing on a specific greenhouse gas mitigation path and it is easy to raise arguments for waiting. However, there is no more time for procrastination. The talk shows mitigation measures ...

2019

Implications of the 1.5-Degree Target for Lifestyles

At current emission level, humanity would have used up their remaining carbon footprint budget from now to eternity within four years or less, when compared to the emissions compatible with keeping global warming within a limit of 1.5°C. Therefore, zero ne ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Carbon dioxide capture, storage and production of biofuel and biomaterials by bacteria: A review

Edgard Gnansounou, Manish Kumar

Due to industrialization and urbanization, as humans continue to rely on fossil fuels, carbon dioxide (CO2) will inevitably be generated and result in an increase of Global Warming Gases (GWGs). However, their prospect is misted up because of the environme ...

Elsevier2018

From COP21 pledges to a fair 2°C pathway

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

At COP21, about 160 countries proposed the so-called INDCs that define GHG abatement objectives by 2030. While encouraging, these commitments are not ambitious enough to achieve the 2°C threshold by 2100, and further negotiations are needed for sharing the ...

2018

An integrative approach for embodied energy: Towards an LCA-based data-driven design method

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The built environment is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To tackle climate change, global targets have been set for this sector. Although life-cycle assessment (LCA) methods are typically used to evaluate a building project ...

2018

How the energy budget scheme contributes to decoupling and deep decarbonisation

Resource use is increasing globally, and four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed due human activities, out of which climate change and biosphere integrity are "core boundaries", implying a risk of driving the Earth system into a new state. ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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