A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

WF Lamb, T Wiedmann, J Pongratz… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be traced to five economic sectors: energy,
industry, buildings, transport and AFOLU (agriculture, forestry and other land uses). In this …

Tackling climate change with machine learning

D Rolnick, PL Donti, LH Kaack, K Kochanski… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine
learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a …

Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation

F Creutzig, J Roy, P Devine-Wright, J Díaz-José… - 2022 - espace.curtin.edu.au
Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

[HTML][HTML] Unsustainable business models–Recognising and resolving institutionalised social and environmental harm

NMP Bocken, SW Short - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Academic and business interest in sustainable business models (SBMs) as a potential
solution to pressing global sustainability issues has grown significantly over the past …

Emissions Trends and Drivers (Chapter 2)

S Dhakal, JC Minx, F Toth, A Abdel-Aziz… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during the last decade (2010–
2019) were higher than at any previous time in human history (high confidence). Since …

Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic

M Awada, B Becerik-Gerber, S Hoque, Z O'Neill… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, people spent on average around 90% of their time
indoors. Now more than ever, with work-from-home orders in place, it is crucial that we …

Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China's building sector—Modelling and data

S Hu, Y Zhang, Z Yang, D Yan, Y Jiang - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
The building sector is one of the largest energy user and carbon emitter globally. To achieve
China's national carbon target, the building sector in China needs to achieve carbon …

LCZ Generator: a web application to create Local Climate Zone maps

M Demuzere, J Kittner, B Bechtel - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their introduction in 2012, Local Climate Zones (LCZs) emerged as a new standard for
characterizing urban landscapes, providing a holistic classification approach that takes into …

The carbon footprint of household energy use in the United States

B Goldstein, D Gounaridis… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Residential energy use accounts for roughly 20% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in
the United States. Using data on 93 million individual households, we estimate these GHGs …

Prioritizing barriers and developing mitigation strategies toward net-zero carbon building sector

E Ohene, APC Chan, A Darko - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Net-zero carbon building (NZCB) has been recognized as a viable solution for reducing
carbon emissions in the building sector. However, its uptake within the industry has been …