Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China's building sector—Modelling and data

S Hu, Y Zhang, Z Yang, D Yan, Y Jiang - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
The building sector is one of the largest energy user and carbon emitter globally. To achieve
China's national carbon target, the building sector in China needs to achieve carbon …

Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications

MF Junaid, Z ur Rehman, M Čekon, J Čurpek… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reutilization of thermal energy according to building demands constitutes an important step
in a low carbon/green campaign. Phase change materials (PCMs) can address these …

Spatial correlation network structure of China's building carbon emissions and its driving factors: a social network analysis method

T Huo, R Cao, N Xia, X Hu, W Cai, B Liu - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clarifying the spatial association network of provincial building carbon emissions and its
influential drivers is profoundly significant for transregional collaborative emission reduction …

Modeling carbon emission trend in China's building sector to year 2060

K You, H Ren, W Cai, R Huang, Y Li - Resources, Conservation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mitigating carbon emissions of China's building sector can significantly contribute toward
realizing China's climate goals of achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. To …

[HTML][HTML] Towards carbon neutrality: a study on China's long-term low-carbon transition pathways and strategies

J He, Z Li, X Zhang, H Wang, W Dong, E Du… - Environmental Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the world's biggest carbon dioxide (CO 2) emitter and the largest developing country,
China faces daunting challenges to peak its emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon …

Development of bottom-up model to estimate dynamic carbon emission for city-scale buildings

J Yang, Z Deng, S Guo, Y Chen - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The building sector plays a key role in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality while
understanding the carbon emission trend of building stock at the city-level is challenging …

Embodied carbon emissions and mitigation potential in China's building sector: An outlook to 2060

C Zhu, X Li, W Zhu, W Gong - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
In China's building sector, annual embodied carbon emissions (EC) account for a larger
proportion than operational emissions, unlike in developed economies. Investigating future …

Clean heating during winter season in Northern China: A review

Z Zhang, Y Zhou, N Zhao, H Li, B Tohniyaz… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous researchers found that bulk coal combustion for heating was considered as one of
the most important sources of air pollution, and the replacement of coal combustion resulted …

Predicting the response of heating and cooling demands of residential buildings with various thermal performances in China to climate change

J Xiong, S Guo, Y Wu, D Yan, C Xiao, X Lu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change will continuously impact building heating and cooling demands. Therefore,
it is essential to characterise the varying future heating and cooling demands, which will …

Carbon peak and carbon neutrality in the building sector: A bibliometric review

Z Sun, Z Ma, M Ma, W Cai, X Xiang, S Zhang, M Chen… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to large energy consumption and carbon emissions (ECCE) in the building sector, there
is huge potential for carbon emission reduction, and this will strongly influence peak carbon …