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The 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE) conference was held in Leiden (Netherlands) on 2-5 July 2023. Dr. Alessio Mastrucci presented a study conducted by IIASA\u2019s researchers affiliated with the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) program with the title: \u201cCircularity strategies for China\u2019s building sector: a scenario analysis\u201d.<\/p>\n
The building stock in China is responsible for an exceptional amount of energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) driven by continuous economic growth and ongoing construction boom. A shift in construction practices and demand reduction for energy-intensive materials<\/strong>, such as steel and concrete, is required to reduce the GHG emissions of buildings construction and contribute to achieving carbon neutrality targets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In this study, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) researchers explored a set of scenarios for the China\u2019s building sector considering a range of circularity strategies<\/strong> to reduce the demand for energy and construction materials, including reduction of buildings size, extension of the building lifetime, and switch timber-based construction. This study is based on the MESSAGEix-Buildings modelling framework<\/strong>, a sectoral model for the building sector linked to the Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM, used to assess future building stock dynamics, energy and material demands, and CO2 emissions of large-scale building stocks.<\/p>\n The results show that the described circularity measures have the potential to reduce the material demand and associated CO2 emissions for China\u2019s buildings sector up to about 58% by 2060 compared to a reference scenario<\/strong>. The results of this study can be used to support policy decisions at national level to reduce demands for energy and materials and contribute to achieving climate mitigation targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n By Alessio Mastrucci, Fei Guo, Xiaoyang Zhong, Bas van Ruijven \u2013 IIASA<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 11th Biennial Conference of ISIE took place in Leiden between 2-5 July. Dr. Alessio Mastrucci presented a study conducted by IIASA\u2019s researchers affiliated with the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) program with the title: \u201cCircularity strategies for China\u2019s building sector: a scenario analysis\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/07\/Exploring-the-potential-of-circularity-strategies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circeular.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}