A review and reflection on open datasets of city-level building energy use and their applications

X Jin, C Zhang, F Xiao, A Li, C Miller - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Data related to building energy use fuels the research and applications on building energy
efficiency, which is an essential measure to address global energy and environmental …

Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation

H Zheng, Y Long, R Wood, D Moran, Z Zhang… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Populations in developed countries are ageing. However, the impact of senior citizens'
consumption on global carbon mitigation is poorly understood. Here we find that senior …

The nonlinear effects of population aging, industrial structure, and urbanization on carbon emissions: A panel threshold regression analysis of 137 countries

Q Wang, L Wang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon emissions and population aging have risen as two major challenges of the
sustainable development of human society. This study explores the nonlinear effects of …

Research on household energy demand patterns, data acquisition and influencing factors: A review

YH Chen, YZ Li, H Jiang, Z Huang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding household energy consumption (HEC) demand patterns and their
influencing factors at different times can provide insights into household energy demand and …

Examining energy inequality under the rapid residential energy transition in China through household surveys

Q Wang, J Fan, MP Kwan, K Zhou, G Shen, N Li, B Wu… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Since 2013, China has initiated a rapid energy transition that replaces traditional solid fuels
with modern clean energy. Despite the tremendous success of the energy transition, its …

Population aging reduces carbon emissions: Evidence from China's latest three censuses

Y Zhou, H Wang, H Qiu - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Population aging inevitably exerts impacts on socio-economic and environmental systems.
However, the relationship between aging and environmental change remains controversial …

The challenge of population aging for mitigating deaths from PM2.5 air pollution in China

F Xu, Q Huang, H Yue, X Feng, H Xu, C He… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Estimating the health burden of air pollution against the background of population aging is of
great significance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3.9 which aims to …

Impact of demographic age structure on energy consumption structure: Evidence from population aging in mainland China

Z Wang, L Wei, X Zhang, G Qi - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the 21st century, the global population aging has been deepening, profoundly
affecting regional socio-economy. To investigate the impact of demographic age structure on …

Green property finance and CO2 emissions in the building industry

HF Gholipour, A Arjomandi, S Yam - Global Finance Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Contributing about 40% of the world's annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the
building industry is tasked with reducing its energy consumption and its carbon footprint in …

Interrelationships between urban travel demand and electricity consumption: a deep learning approach

A Movahedi, AB Parsa, A Rozhkov, D Lee… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The analysis of infrastructure use data in relation to other components of the infrastructure
can help better understand the interrelationships between infrastructures to eventually …