The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade-embodied carbon emissions. [PDF]
J Clean Prod, 2023 We evaluate the response of global supply chains to carbon emissions through compiling multi-regional input-output (MRIO) models for import and export shocks in 14 countries/territories dominated by the COVID-19 crisis.
Liu Y +6 more
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Deep mitigation for trade-embodied carbon emissions among the Belt and Road Initiative countries [PDF]
iScienceSummary: The frequent trade within and beyond the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has prospered the economy but has also expanded carbon emissions. Here, through a multi-regional environmental input-output analysis framework, we explore the patterns and ...
Lina Zhang +5 more
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Methods for calculating building-embodied carbon emissions for the whole design process. [PDF]
Fundam ResHighlights • Methods for quantifying embodied carbon emissions in design process are proposed.• Regression method addresses the barriers of limited information in concept design.• BIM-based method addresses the inventories acquisition difficulties in ...
Lu M, Luo Z, Cang Y, Zhang N, Yang L.
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Embodied carbon emissions in buildings: explanations, interpretations, recommendations
Buildings & Cities, 2022 What is embodied carbon and why is it a significant challenge for clients and designers in the real estate and construction sector? It is the sum of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that arise in the life cycle of a building during manufacture and ...
Thomas Lützkendorf, Maria Balouktsi
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Spatial-temporal evolution and peak prediction of embodied carbon emissions in China's interregional trade [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The embodied carbon in inter-regional trade has a vital impact on the allocation of carbon emission reduction obligations and the formulation of carbon emission reduction strategies.
Shu Mo +4 more
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 Achieving low carbon emissions in buildings has a critical impact on controlling global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the boom in educational buildings, especially those with reinforced concrete structures, carbon emissions from such buildings are
Ke Liu, Jiawei Leng
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Embodied carbon emissions of pumped storage hydropower infrastructure construction in China across temporal–spatial and driving factors dimensions [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTo meet ambitious carbon neutrality targets, the transition to renewable energy has amplified demand for grid-scale storage, with pumped storage hydropower emerging as the dominant solution due to its technical maturity and economic viability.
Zewen Ge, Jiayi Zhang, Zixin Qiu
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Inter-provincial water-energy-carbon transfer and its efficiency in China: the perspective of land use [PDF]
Carbon Balance and ManagementBackground Revealing inter-regional water-energy-carbon transfer driven by land use has great significance for realizing multiple objectives of resource collaborative optimization and carbon mitigation, yet land-use WEC accounting at the provincial scale
Chen Cai +7 more
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Assessing Embodied Carbon Emission and Its Intensities in the ICT Industry: The Global Case
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 With the intensification of globalization, the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, as one of the emerging industrial sectors, has played an important role in reducing carbon emissions in regional trade and improving the energy ...
Xiucheng Dong +5 more
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The Impact of Global Value Chain Embedding on Carbon Emissions Embodied in China’s Exports
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 The impact of global value chain (GVC) division of labor on carbon emissions embodied in exports has attracted extensive attention from scholars, but existing studies have not distinguished the heterogeneous impact of different GVC embedding patterns on ...
Hanxue Chen, Caixia Zhang, Kedong Yin
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