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Factors influencing the life-cycle GHG emissions of Brazilian office buildings
Effective mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the buildings sector requires a full understanding of the factors influencing …
Kamila Krych
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Niko Heeren
,
Edgar Hertwich
DOI
Global Scenarios of Resource and Emissions Savings from Systemic Material Efficiency in Buildings and Cars
Material production accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Resource-efficiency and circular-economy …
Stefan Pauliuk
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Niko Heeren
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Peter Berrill
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Tomer Fishman
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Andrea Nistad
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Qingshi Tu
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Paul Wolfram
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Edgar Hertwich
DOI
Material efficiency for climate change mitigation
[A]ny legitimate pathway to net‐zero GHG emissions must include significant changes to the ways societies manufacture and utilize …
Eric Masanet
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Niko Heeren
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Shigemi Kagawa
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Jonathan Cullen
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Reid Lifset
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Richard Wood
DOI
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modelling
Scenario‐based assessments are a useful tool to explore unknown futures and inform decision makers and the public of the consequences …
Tomer Fishman
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Niko Heeren
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Stefan Pauliuk
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Peter Berrill
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Qingshi Tu
,
Paul Wolfram
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Edgar Hertwich
DOI
Investigations on the Sustainable Resource Use of Swiss Timber
In Switzerland, the advantages of timber buildings for the climate are broadly discussed. In the following paper, a comparative …
Claude Leyder
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Michael Klippel
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Olin Bartlomé
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Niko Heeren
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Sarah Kissling
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Yutaka Goto
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Andrea Frangi
DOI
Material efficiency and its contribution to climate change mitigation in Germany: A deep decarbonization scenario analysis until 2060
Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions have declined by 35% since 1990, and the national policy ambition is to become largely …
Stefan Pauliuk
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Niko Heeren
DOI
Optimisation of energy-efficient greenhouses based on an integrated energy demand-yield production model
The aim of this paper is to develop a simulation framework to minimise the cost associated with commercial greenhouse yields …
Farzin Golzar
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Niko Heeren
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Stefanie Hellweg
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Ramin Roshandel
DOI
A combined GIS-archetype approach to model residential space heating energy: A case study for the Netherlands including validation
High spatial resolution is critical for a building stock energy model to identify spatial hotspots and provide targeted recommendations …
Xining Yang
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Mingming Hu
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Niko Heeren
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Chunbo Zhang
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Teun Verhagen
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Arnold Tukker
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Bernhard Steubing
DOI
Material efficiency and climate change mitigation of passenger vehicles
A transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy is currently underway but may not be rapid enough in order to reach ambitious …
Paul Wolfram
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Qingshi Tu
,
Niko Heeren
,
Stefan Pauliuk
,
Edgar Hertwich
DOI
Linking service provision to material cycles: A new framework for studying the resource efficiency–climate change (RECC) nexus
Material production accounts for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions. More efficient use of materials—through decoupling of services …
Stefan Pauliuk
,
Tomer Fishman
,
Niko Heeren
,
Peter Berrill Qingshi Tu
,
Paul Wolfram
,
Edgar Hertwich
DOI
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