Meeting the climate change challenge: a scan of greenhouse gas emissions in BC communities

Burch, Sarah; Herbert, Yuill; Robinson, John R.

doi:10.1080/13549839.2014.902370

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“…Within them are hundreds of thousands of buildings (over 1 million residential buildings alone) of even more diverse and variable purpose, size, construction type, and vintage. This diversity profoundly impacts the energy and emissions intensity of BC communities as well as the proportions of energy emissions attributable to building operations (ranging from 23% to 51% of BC's community emissions inventories) and to transportation demand (ranging from 42% to 66% of BC's community emissions inventories) (Burch et al 2014). Performance differences are attributable to the interaction of many built-environment factors, including the planning and regulation of land use and transportation as well as the design, engineering, construction, and operation of buildings.…”

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Integration of an energy– economy model with an urban energy model

Scott²,

Kim

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Buildings and Cities

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A proliferation of energy models has been developed across disciplines to explore energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-reduction strategies in cities. Hybrid models are especially useful because they incorporate more dynamics to simulate realistic results informed by relevant high-level policy decisions and building-level factors. Spatial and aspatial energy models, however, are not often linked, which overlooks the spatial impact of energy and emissions policies in urban environments. A new method is presented that links these types of models to understand how building stocks change over time in response to policies. This approach integrates outputs from an aspatial economic model, CIMS, with buildings in a spatially explicit urban building energy model (UBEM), UMI. The energyeconomy model is parameterised against the UBEM using identified baseline condition and proposed future policy interventions. Building stock replacement and retrofit change are downscaled and disaggregated to individual buildings based on existing stock age and a probability-based Markov chain model (MCM). This integration enables simulations of cross-scale policy interventions that are sensitive to both economically and mechanically driven factors. An application of this approach shows how it can be used to evaluate how different policies interact with and influence building energy demand and GHG emissions. PRACTICE RELEVANCE The results are integrated as a series spatially explicit energy modeling procedure (UMI) at the neighborhood scale. This process enables local assessments of efficacy of the proposed city scale and even regional policies in municipalities with various energy and GHG emission agendas. In the presented case study (of the Sunset neighborhood of Vancouver, BC, Canada) this method can quantify the elasticity of emission reductions from various urban form changes (e.g. infill, transportation-oriented development, etc.), new building code (i.e. BC Energy Step Code), active transportation and retrofit strategies from 2020 to 2050.

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Integration of an energy– economy model with an urban energy model

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Kim

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“…The next section briefly describes the methods used to model the data. Following a discussion of the data, the paper provides a series of recommendations based on the authors' previous climate change research (Burch et al 2015;Dale 2015;Dale et al 2018;Shaw et al 2014) that would propel Canadian cities towards transformative change of their current development paths (Jost et al 2020;Moore et al 2021). Additional detailed data, including a description of the CityInSight model, are provided in the supplemental data online.…”

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Canadian cities: climate change action and plans

Herbert¹,

Dale

Stashok³

2022

Buildings and Cities

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The individual and collective decarbonization pathways of 26 Canadian cities are assessed by evaluating data gathered from the implementation of a unique energy model, CityinSight. Although many cities in Canada have declared a climate emergency and plans are at various stages of implementation, development path change is mostly incremental. They are at the very beginning of transforming development paths that necessitate climate action planning which embraces a systems perspective and wholecity planning. The present data reveal that there are very different starting points for Canadian cities, and considerable asymmetries between municipalities, as well as the collective impact of their plans on national targets. The latency of municipalities for on-the-ground implementation of their plans means that ongoing assessments will be required to determine the impact of efforts by cities to achieve their targets. POLICY RELEVANCECities are on the front line of implementing climate change adaptation and mitigation. Many climate researchers and practitioners have called for fundamental change and new governance arrangements to achieve even a 2°C limit to rising global temperatures. At the same time, researchers argue that Canadian cities do not have the ability to raise revenue other than through continuous development: an incentive therefore exists to keep 'growing' regardless of other sustainable imperatives. Transformational change is required through policy instruments and more appropriate incentives harmonized across macro-, meso-, and microlevels to create carbon-neutral development paths in the next decade. Policy harmonization, coherence, and alignment are necessary and sufficient conditions for meeting the international commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This also requires action at multiple scales with multilevel partnerships and unprecedented degrees of government collaboration and leadership.

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“…Therefore, interest in urban resilience is growing (Chelleri, 2012;Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Lee, 2015;The Royal Society, 2014). Cities, municipalities and counties may also use climate change-related strategies to achieve such objects as sustainable and efficient energy use and renewable energy production, and provide a context within which both relevant behavioral and relevant technical innovations may arise and spread (Burch, Herbert, & Robinson, 2015;Lee, 2015). Cities are centers of innovation, which is a key component of resilience (Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Rose, 2014).…”

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Building Resilient Cities through Community Empowerment: Principles and Strategies for Taiwan

Lee

2017

IRSPSD International

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Abstract:IPCC AR5 notes that since the 1950s, changes in climate systems, ocean, sea levels, icebergs, carbon and other biochemistry have been unprecedented. If the emission rate of greenhouse gases remains constant or increases, then the effects of climate change will become severe. Accordingly, research on vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation of climate change is required. With respect to those considerations, development of the concept of resilience and the construction of resilient cities has become a critical and important task for sustainable urban and regional development. This study begins by providing a brief introduction of the significant impacts of climate change globally and, in particular, in Taiwan. The second section analyzes concepts related to resilient cities, including vulnerability, adaptation, resilience, governance and community empowerment. The third section proposes principles to govern the construction of resilient cities through community empowerment, based on a literature review and documentary analyses. The final section presents conclusions and suggestions.

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Meeting the climate change challenge: a scan of greenhouse gas emissions in BC communities

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Integration of an energy– economy model with an urban energy model

Integration of an energy– economy model with an urban energy model

Canadian cities: climate change action and plans

Building Resilient Cities through Community Empowerment: Principles and Strategies for Taiwan

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