Total material requirement for the global energy transition to 2050: A focus on transport and electricity

Watari, Takuma; McLellan, Benjamin; Giurco, Damien; Dominish, Elsa; Yamasue, Eiji; Nansai, Keisuke

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.05.015

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“…wind turbines, photovoltaic power plants) and infrastructures (e.g. expansion and reinforcement of electric transmission grids; Beylot et al 2019, Watari et al 2019.…”

Section: Implications For Future Decoupling Research and Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

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Wiedenhofer

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et al. 2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of 'decoupling'; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and GHG emissions. GDP growth coinciding with absolute reductions in emissions or resource use is denoted as 'absolute decoupling' , as opposed to 'relative decoupling' , where resource use or emissions increase less so than does GDP. Based on the bibliometric mapping in part I (Wiedenhofer et al, 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 063002), we synthesize the evidence emerging from the selected 835 peer-reviewed articles. We evaluate empirical studies of decoupling related to final/useful energy, exergy, use of material resources, as well as CO 2 and total GHG emissions. We find that relative decoupling is frequent for material use as well as GHG and CO 2 emissions but not for useful exergy, a quality-based measure of energy use. Primary energy can be decoupled from GDP largely to the extent to which the conversion of primary energy to useful exergy is improved. Examples of absolute long-term decoupling are rare, but recently some industrialized countries have decoupled GDP from both production-and, weaklier, consumption-based CO 2 emissions. We analyze policies or strategies in the decoupling literature by classifying them into three groups:(1) Green growth, if sufficient reductions of resource use or emissions were deemed possible without altering the growth trajectory.(2) Degrowth, if reductions of resource use or emissions were given priority over GDP growth. (3) Others, e.g. if the role of energy for GDP growth was analyzed without reference to climate change mitigation. We conclude that large rapid absolute reductions of resource use and GHG emissions cannot be achieved through observed decoupling rates, hence decoupling needs to be complemented by sufficiency-oriented strategies and strict enforcement of absolute reduction targets. More research is needed on interdependencies between wellbeing, resources and emissions.

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“…wind turbines, photovoltaic power plants) and infrastructures (e.g. expansion and reinforcement of electric transmission grids; Beylot et al 2019, Watari et al 2019.…”

Section: Implications For Future Decoupling Research and Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

Haberl

Wiedenhofer

Virág

et al. 2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

486

239

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“…Future metal and material demand has been projected and studied from the perspective of different macro-level scenarios (Deetman et al, 2019(Deetman et al, , 2018Elshkaki et al, 2018Elshkaki et al, , 2016Elshkaki and Graedel, 2013;Hatayama et al, 2010;Schipper et al, 2018;van der Voet et al, 2018;Watari et al, 2019), but those assessments are not linked to resource efficiency, but represent a very important starting point for our work, as we can link our scenarios and data to these studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, there are some recent attempts to link material consumption to economy-wide models more directly. First, by converting sectoral output of CGE models into material flows by applying product material composition and prices (Cao et al, 2018;Winning et al, 2017), and second, by converting end-user demand for new products provided by energy system models into material flows by applying product material composition data (Deetman et al, 2018;Watari et al, 2019). These attempts are a step in the right direction, but the CGE approaches focus on single economic sectors only and do not consider material cycles and the mitigation potentials therein, and the energy system-based approaches only estimate final demand and currently do not consider the material cycle response.…”

Section: Combining Economic and Biophysical Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documentation of part IV of the RECC model framework: Open Dynamic Material Systems Model for the Resource Efficiency-Climate Change Nexus (ODYM-RECC), v2.2

Pauliuk¹

2020

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“…Planning sustainable urban transformation is a crucial task in the development of cities [2]. Transitioning to a low-carbon energy system is vital for realizing sustainable development, and the transport sector is key to the 2050 long-term decarbonization strategy of the European Union [3]. Smart city architecture is usually organized into four layers: he application layer, middleware layer, network layer, and sensing layer [4].…”

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Social Parking: Applying the Citizens as Sensors Paradigm to Parking Guidance and Information

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Nowadays, the problem of parking guidance information (PGI) is one of the great challenges of smart cities. Sensor networks have been traditionally used, but they sometimes constitute a high administrative cost. For this reason, this paper presents social parking, a system that is based on the citizens as sensors paradigm, where data are collected by users and are processed using data mining techniques. Moreover, an ontology is used to enable the standardization of information. This way, social parking is compatible with the FIWARE platform. A forecast algorithm was also designed and verified to estimate the number of free parking spots inside a parking lot. With this aim, we used public parking data from eight parking lots in the city of Zaragoza. Client applications allowed testing of all the functions of the parking system. These tests were carried out in three experimental parking lots in the city of Málaga.

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Total material requirement for the global energy transition to 2050: A focus on transport and electricity

Cited by 213 publications

References 82 publications

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

Documentation of part IV of the RECC model framework: Open Dynamic Material Systems Model for the Resource Efficiency-Climate Change Nexus (ODYM-RECC), v2.2

Social Parking: Applying the Citizens as Sensors Paradigm to Parking Guidance and Information

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