A global comparison of building decarbonization scenarios by 2050 towards 1.5–2 °C targets
Camarasa, Clara; Mata, Érika; Navarro, Juan Pablo Jiménez; Reyna, Janet; Bezerra, Paula; Angelkorte, Gerd Brantes; Feng, Wei; Filippidou, Faidra; Forthuber, Sebastian; Harris, Chioke; Sandberg, Nina Holck; Ignatiadou, Sotiria; Kranzl, Lukas; Langevin, Jared; Liu, Xu; Müller, Andreas; Soria, Rafael; Villamar, Daniel; Dias, Gabriela Prata; Wanemark, Joel; Yaramenka, Katarina
Peer reviewed, Journal article
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3011181Utgivelsesdato
2022Metadata
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10.1038/s41467-022-29890-5Sammendrag
Buildings play a key role in the transition to a low-carbon-energy system and in achieving Paris Agreement climate targets. Analyzing potential scenarios for building decarbonization in different socioeconomic contexts is a crucial step to develop national and transnational roadmaps to achieve global emission reduction targets. This study integrates building stock energy models for 32 countries across four continents to create carbon emission mitigation reference scenarios and decarbonization scenarios by 2050, covering 60% of today’s global building emissions. These decarbonization pathways are compared to those from global models. Results demonstrate that reference scenarios are in all countries insufficient to achieve substantial decarbonization and lead, in some regions, to significant increases, i.e., China and South America. Decarbonization scenarios lead to substantial carbon reductions within the range projected in the 2 °C scenario but are still insufficient to achieve the decarbonization goals under the 1.5 °C scenario.