Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets

Krausmann, Fridolin; Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Haberl, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102034

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“…Buildings are a major contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The extent to which emissions can be reduced from both the construction and operation of buildings will play a key role in determining the feasibility of achieving ambitious climate change mitigation targets (Krausmann et al 2020). As building stocks evolve through construction and demolition, they require new materials, produce construction and demolition waste, and generate 'embodied' GHG emissions from material production and construction activities.…”

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Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60

Berrill

Hertwich

2021

Buildings and Cities

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The evolution of housing stocks determines demand for construction materials and energy, and associated emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). The contribution of construction to building life-cycle emissions is growing as buildings become more energy efficient and the energy supply decarbonizes. A housing stock model is developed for counties in the United States using dynamic vacancy rates which endogenously influence stock out-and inflows. Stocks of three house types and 10 construction cohorts are projected for all contiguous US counties for the period 2020-60. Inflows and outflows of construction materials are then estimated along with GHG emissions associated with material production and construction activities in scenarios defined by stock turnover rates, population share by house type, and floor area characteristics of new houses. The results provide new insights into the drivers of construction-related emissions at local and national levels, and identify opportunities for their reduction. Demolition material flows grow in relation to construction material flows over the analysis period. Increasing the stock turnover rate increases future floor area per person, material requirements, and emissions from construction. Scenarios with reduced floor area and more multifamily homes in new construction have lower floor area growth, material requirements, and emissions from construction.

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Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60

Berrill

Hertwich

2021

Buildings and Cities

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“…The topics “climate”, “climate change”, “global warming”, “greenhouse gas”, “carbon dioxide”, “temperature”, and “climate change mitigation” are among the most frequent topics associated with this body of literature. Articles that are tagged as belonging to these topics focus, for example, on developing cost-optimal and equitable mitigation scenarios across different countries, especially with a view of limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5°C [ 31 – 36 ], specific options such as reforestation and forest-based climate mitigation [ 37 – 39 ], changes in consumer choices and demand [ 40 – 42 ], emissions pricing of food commodities [ 43 ], as well as carbon sequestration and CO 2 capture and storage solutions [ 44 , 45 ].…”

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“…Table 3. Table with Articles that are tagged as belonging to these topics focus, for example, on developing costoptimal and equitable mitigation scenarios across different countries, especially with a view of limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5˚C [31][32][33][34][35][36], specific options such as reforestation and forest-based climate mitigation [37][38][39], changes in consumer choices and demand [40][41][42], emissions pricing of food commodities [43], as well as carbon sequestration and CO 2 capture and storage solutions [44,45]. Attention to topics related to climate change is closely followed by attention to closely related topics, such as "human impact on the environment", "biodiversity", "deforestation" and "land use".…”

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Interdisciplinary Research Maps: A new technique for visualizing research topics

Marrone

Linnenluecke

2020

PLoS ONE

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This article introduces Interdisciplinary Research Maps as a novel visualization technique to assist with interdisciplinary research analytics and to map common (and distinct) topics across publications from different disciplines. We detail the method for this technique which is based on entity linking and illustrate its application to a sample of articles sourced from the top business/management and environmental sciences journals. Both fields have separately been criticized for a lack of interdisciplinary research to co-create insights for tackling pressing environmental issues such as climate change. Our mapping approach provides a starting point for exploring similarities and differences in research topics across these fields. The mapping technique introduced here has broader applicability to facilitate the creation and exchange of knowledge across fields. We discuss avenues for visualization techniques to bridge the different fields by focusing on identifying common concepts to provide a basis for future analysis.

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“…From a stabilization vantage point, growth then turned into the main driver of ecological instability and social inequalities. From a biophysical perspective, it could be argued that capital has mostly served to accumulate everhigher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the Earth's atmosphere, as well as future emissions locked into the existing stock of material artifacts and infrastructures that rely on extracting fossil fuels (Krausmann et al 2020). On the basis of social position, these compounded crises (ecological, economic, and social) are felt earlier by some than by others, and they negatively impact some people's lives whereas others might benefit.…”

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From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation

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Muraca

Pineault

et al. 2021

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capitalist societies as a heuristic for discussing the expansionary dynamics, power relations, and lock-ins of modern societies that impel highly unsustainable societal relations with nature. While formulating societal boundaries implies a controversial processbased on normative judgments, ethical concerns, and socio-political strugglesit has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation. Collective autonomy and the politics of self-limitation are key elements of societal boundaries and are linked to important proposals and pluriverse experiences to integrate well-being and boundaries. The role of the state and propositions for radical alternative approaches to well-being have particular importance. We conclude with reflections on social freedom, defined as the right not to live at others' expense. Toward the aim of defining boundaries through transdisciplinary and democratic processes, we seek to open a dialogue on these issues.

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Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets

Cited by 102 publications

References 55 publications

Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60

Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60

Interdisciplinary Research Maps: A new technique for visualizing research topics

From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation

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