Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches

M Ferrando, F Causone, T Hong, Y Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Regulations corroborate the importance of retrofitting existing building stocks or constructing
new energy-efficient districts. There is, thus, a need for modeling tools to evaluate energy …

Recent developments, future challenges and new research directions in LCA of buildings: A critical review

CK Anand, B Amor - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Considering the vast and rapidly growing area of buildings, LCA research is being led in
numerous different areas ranging from building materials and components level to whole …

The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions

QJ Wang, GF Feng, HJ Wang, CP Chang - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
This research tests the casual link from political ideology to national greenhouse gas
emissions by utilizing multinational panel data covering 98 countries during the period 1990 …

[HTML][HTML] The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions

S Wynes, KA Nicholas - Environmental Research Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Current anthropogenic climate change is the result of greenhouse gas accumulation in the
atmosphere, which records the aggregation of billions of individual decisions. Here we …

Regional unevenness and synergy of carbon emission reduction in China's green low-carbon circular economy

K Di, W Chen, X Zhang, Q Shi, Q Cai, D Li, C Liu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study draws upon general systems theory and Bronfenbrenner's theory of ecosystem
studies. Utilizing panel data from 2000 to 2019 covering 30 provinces in China, this study …

Machine learning approaches for estimating commercial building energy consumption

C Robinson, B Dilkina, J Hubbs, W Zhang… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Building energy consumption makes up 40% of the total energy consumption in the United
States. Given that energy consumption in buildings is influenced by aspects of urban form …

Exploring decarbonization pathways for USA passenger and freight mobility

C Hoehne, M Muratori, P Jadun, B Bush, A Yip… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Passenger and freight travel account for 28% of US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
today. We explore pathways to reduce transportation emissions using NREL's TEMPO …

A review on life cycle assessment, life cycle energy assessment and life cycle carbon emissions assessment on buildings

CK Chau, TM Leung, WY Ng - Applied energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review on three streams of life cycle studies that have been frequently
applied to evaluate the environmental impacts of building construction with a major focus on …

The carbon footprint of buildings: A review of methodologies and applications

AE Fenner, CJ Kibert, J Woo, S Morque… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The carbon emissions associated with the built environment represent the dominant fraction
of the total carbon footprint of society. As a result of the intense debate over how to address …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) of buildings and the building sector: A review

LF Cabeza, L Rincón, V Vilariño, G Pérez… - … and sustainable energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
This review summarizes and organizes the literature on life cycle assessment (LCA), life
cycle energy analysis (LCEA) and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) studies carried out for …