Cities as carbon sinks—classification of wooden buildings

A Amiri, J Ottelin, J Sorvari… - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Although buildings produce a third of greenhouse gas emissions, it has been suggested that
they might be one of the most cost-effective climate change mitigation solutions. Among …

Creating a Resource cadaster—a case study of a district in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area

O Oezdemir, K Krause, A Hafner - Buildings, 2017 - mdpi.com
Today, both resource efficiency in general and the efficient use of natural resources
specifically in the building sector are major political issues. Recent studies on resource …

Method for assessing the national implications of environmental impacts from timber buildings—an exemplary study for residential buildings in Germany

A Hafner, S Rueter - Wood and Fiber Science, 2018 - wfs.swst.org
METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS FROM TIMBER BUILDINGS—AN EXEMPLARY STUDY FOR RESIDENTI Page 1 …

The missing limb: including impacts of biomass extraction on forest carbon stocks in greenhouse gas balances of wood use

H Fehrenbach, M Bischoff, H Böttcher, J Reise… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global carbon neutrality challenge places a spotlight on forests as carbon sinks.
However, greenhouse gas (GHG) balances of wood for material and energy use often reveal …

Carbon dynamics and GHG implications of increasing wood construction: long-term scenarios for residential buildings in Austria

G Kalt - Carbon Management, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Wooden construction elements often exhibit lower life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions than conventional counterparts ('material substitution effect'). Moreover, the …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the circular bioeconomy transition in Germany: A systematic scenario analysis

S Richter, N Szarka, A Bezama, D Thrän - Sustainable Production and …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study employs a systematic-formalised scenario approach to examine critical drivers
and interdependencies affecting the transition to a circular bioeconomy in Germany. By …

Overview and main findings for the Austrian case study

F Dolezal, I Dornigg, M Wurm, H Figl - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
As part of a project investigating in the potential greenhouse gas mitigation effect of the
increased use and production of mass timber worldwide, a comparative study was carried …

Extent and costs of forest-based climate change mitigation in Germany: accounting for substitution

M Bösch, P Elsasser, J Rock, H Weimar… - Carbon …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this study is to quantify the contribution of the German forestry to climate
change mitigation and to calculate the associated costs at the national level. For that, the …

Next generation of life cycle related benchmarks for low carbon residential buildings in Germany

Ö Özdemir, C Hartmann, A Hafner… - … Series: Earth and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Germany's national climate targets are in line with the Paris Climate Agreement and set the
ambitious goal of becoming net zero emissions by 2045. The construction and real estate …

Folgenabschätzung für Maßnahmenoptionen im Bereich Landwirtschaft und landwirtschaftliche Landnutzung, Forstwirtschaft und Holznutzung zur Umsetzung des …

B Osterburg, C Heidecke, A Bolte, J Braun, M Dieter… - 2019 - econstor.eu
Im vorliegenden Bericht wird dargestellt, welche Instrumente und Maßnahmen zur
Erreichung der Sektorziels des Klimaschutzplans 2050 (KSP 2050) bis zum Jahr 2030 für …