Assessment of climate change impact on residential building heating and cooling energy requirement in Australia

Wang, Xiaoming; Chen, Dong; Ren, Zhengen

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.01.022

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“…As noted by de Wilde and Coley (2012), there appears to be at least some debate in relation to highly insulated buildings with Crawley (2008) noting greater resilience and Wang, Chen and Ren (2010) noting less resilience to the impacts of climate change. Gupta and Gregg (2012) cite the Passiv-on project which found that the high levels of insulation is Passive House buildings in southern Europe worked to keep the building cool during warm weather.…”

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The impact of regulations on overheating risk in dwellings

Mulville

Stravoravdis

2016

Building Research & Information

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“…[50,51]). For these decisions, risk management should adopt the precautionary principle, choosing a response extent (e.g.…”

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Rethinking adaptation for a 4 ^° C world

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Horrocks

Harvey

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With weakening prospects of prompt mitigation, it is increasingly likely that the world will experience 4 • C and more of global warming. In such a world, adaptation decisions that have long lead times or that have implications playing out over many decades become more uncertain and complex. Adapting to global warming of 4 • C cannot be seen as a mere extrapolation of adaptation to 2 • C; it will be a more substantial, continuous and transformative process. However, a variety of psychological, social and institutional barriers to adaptation are exacerbated by uncertainty and long timeframes, with the danger of immobilizing decision-makers. In this paper, we show how complexity and uncertainty can be reduced by a systematic approach to categorizing the interactions between decision lifetime, the type of uncertainty in the relevant drivers of change and the nature of adaptation response options. We synthesize a number of issues previously raised in the literature to link the categories of interactions to a variety of risk-management strategies and tactics. Such application could help to break down some barriers to adaptation and both simplify and better target adaptation decision-making.The approach needs to be tested and adopted rapidly.

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“…Amongst others, Wilbanks et al (2007b) for the USA, Aebischer et al (2007) for Switzerland and Europe, Dolinar et al (2010) for Slovenia, Wang et al (2010) for Australia, Ward (2008) for Yorkshire in the UK and Akpinar-Ferrand and Singh (2010) for India. Some of these studies assess the determinants of heating and cooling demands based on multi-country panel studies Petrick et al, 2010).…”

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Worldwide impacts of climate change on energy for heating and cooling

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Joshi

Vielle

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Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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The energy sector is not only a major contributor to greenhouse gases, it is also vulnerable to climate change and will have to adapt to future climate conditions. The objective of this study is to analyze the impacts of changes in future temperatures on the heating and cooling services of buildings and the resulting energy and macro-economic effects at global and regional levels. For this purpose, the techno-economic TIAM-WORLD (TIMES Integrated Assessment Model) and the general equilibrium GEMINI-E3 (General Equilibrium Model of International-National Interactions between Economy, Energy and Environment) models are coupled with a climate model, PLASIM-ENTS (Planet-Simulator -Efficient Numerical Terrestrial Scheme). The key results are as follows. At the global level, the climate feedback induced by adaptation of the energy system to heating and cooling is found to be insignificant, partly because heating and cooling-induced changes compensate and partly because they represent a limited share of total final energy consumption. However, significant changes are observed at regional levels, more particularly in terms of additional power capacity required to satisfy additional cooling services, resulting in increases in electricity prices. In terms of macro-economic impacts, welfare gains and losses are associated more with changes in energy exports and imports than with changes in energy consumption for heating and cooling. The rebound effect appears to be non-negligible.To conclude, the coupling of models of different nature was successful and showed that the energy and economic impacts of climate change on heating and cooling remain small at the global level, but changes in energy needs will be visible at more local scale.

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Assessment of climate change impact on residential building heating and cooling energy requirement in Australia

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The impact of regulations on overheating risk in dwellings

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