Aligning carbon targets for construction with (inter)national climate change mitigation commitments

Giesekam, Jannik; Tingley, Danielle Densley; Cotton, Isabel

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.01.023

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“…Sustained academic research on SBTs and climate policy is much needed. To date, existing academic work centers on arguing for or developing the tools themselves (Krabbe et al, ; Randers, ; Trancik, Chang, Karapataki, & Stokes, ), or editorial commentaries on whether or to what extent the tools will help in meeting climate stabilization goals (Giesekam, Tingley, & Cotton, ; Marland, Kowalczyk, & Cherry, ; Rockstrom et al, ; Trexler & Schendler, ). Rockstrom et al () in particular have criticized SBTs on a broad basis, suggesting the private sector might manipulate future financial projections to minimize targets.…”

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Climate risk assessments and science‐based targets: A review of emerging private sector climate action tools

Walenta

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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With the retreat of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, the campaign to enroll corporations and other private sector actors into the climate governing arena has accelerated. The tools used by such actors in addressing climate change are similarly expanding. While carbon footprints and carbon offsets have been previously underscored as the chief climate action tools to date, climate risk assessments and science-based targets have been proposed as new quantitative tools to mobilize corporate action against climate change. This article presents a review of these two tools, arguing for more comprehensive and sustained scholarly investigation into each. Following overviews on the early developments of each tool, related academic research is considered in an effort to point toward future research priorities. These priorities emphasize generating empirical data around each tool's origins, diffusion, and impacts (social, economic, and environmental) so that more robust academic debates might occur on the role of science-based targets and climate risk assessments in advancing effective polycentric climate governance.

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Section: Science‐based Targetsmentioning

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Climate risk assessments and science‐based targets: A review of emerging private sector climate action tools

Walenta

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Subsequent results [59] found a disparity between present company-based carbon targets and the range of possible trajectories. Giesekam et al [59] illustrated the impact of different methodological assumptions and highlighted the critical features for an appropriate response. They argued that a cross-industry dialogue is needed to establish a suitable response to deliver both a widely-accepted, construction sector target trajectory and a corresponding plan for its delivery.…”

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“…5 illustrates the embodied emissions associated with future demand for construction for a wide range of scenarios [58]. Subsequent results [59] found a disparity between present company-based carbon targets and the range of possible trajectories. Giesekam et al [59] illustrated the impact of different methodological assumptions and highlighted the critical features for an appropriate response.…”

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Industrial energy, materials and products: UK decarbonisation challenges and opportunities

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Applied Thermal Engineering

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“…strategies determined in the Paris Agreement would imply an average heating of 2.6 to 3.1 ºC in 2100 [4]. So, if global warming is limited to the maximum critical level of +2 °C compared to Pre-industrial temperatures, substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are required in the coming decades [5].…”

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“…Therefore, there is a wide range of opportunities to reduce CO2 emissions throughout the life cycle of a building, including mitigation strategies to reduce the associated emissions in construction phases [4]. In this sense, strategies and good practices based on the manufacture of sustainable and energetically efficient building materials have been determined as an alternative instead traditional materials, that can be an adequate solution for the problem of pollution and conservation of natural resources for future generations [6].…”

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Strategies to Reduce CO2 Emissions in Housing Building by Means of CDW

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One of the biggest problems that human beings face is climate change and construction industry is one of the sectors causing the greatest impact, which has led him to adopt sustainable strategies. However, these have not been effective enough to reduce CO2 emissions, since solutions are required accompanied by other alternatives. Therefore, the objective of this study is to reduce CO2 by implementing CDW strategies under the following method: 1) analysis of CO2 of the major raw materials consumed, 2) use of the materials at the construction site was determined, 3) waste streams generated at the construction site were identified and those that could be reuse were highlighted, 4) CDW recycling strategies to avoid the use of the major raw materials consumption are proposed, and 5) one of the strategies proposed is further analyzed. The results show that natural aggregates generate the greater amount of CO2 due to the consumption of fuel required for their transportation. By replacing 68% of natural aggregates by recycled aggregates, CO2 can be reduced by 53%. Finally, these results can help to promote the opening of new CDW recycling companies in Nayarit and thereby contribute to the sum of sustainability practices in housing building.

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Aligning carbon targets for construction with (inter)national climate change mitigation commitments

Cited by 49 publications

References 27 publications

Climate risk assessments and science‐based targets: A review of emerging private sector climate action tools

Climate risk assessments and science‐based targets: A review of emerging private sector climate action tools

Industrial energy, materials and products: UK decarbonisation challenges and opportunities

Strategies to Reduce CO2 Emissions in Housing Building by Means of CDW

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