Print Email Facebook Twitter Global greenhouse gas emissions from residential and commercial building materials and mitigation strategies to 2060 Title Global greenhouse gas emissions from residential and commercial building materials and mitigation strategies to 2060 Author Zhong, Xiaoyang (Universiteit Leiden) Hu, Mingming (Universiteit Leiden; Chongqing University) Deetman, Sebastiaan (Universiteit Leiden; Universiteit Utrecht) Steubing, Bernhard (Universiteit Leiden) Lin, H.X. (TU Delft Mathematical Physics; Universiteit Leiden) Aguilar-Hernandez, G. (TU Delft Organisation & Governance; Universiteit Leiden) Harpprecht, Carina (Universiteit Leiden; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)) Zhang, Chunbo (Universiteit Leiden) Tukker, Arnold (Universiteit Leiden; DIANA FEA) Behrens, Paul (Universiteit Leiden) Date 2021 Abstract Building stock growth around the world drives extensive material consumption and environmental impacts. Future impacts will be dependent on the level and rate of socioeconomic development, along with material use and supply strategies. Here we evaluate material-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for residential and commercial buildings along with their reduction potentials in 26 global regions by 2060. For a middle-of-the-road baseline scenario, building material-related emissions see an increase of 3.5 to 4.6 Gt CO2eq yr-1 between 2020–2060. Low- and lower-middle-income regions see rapid emission increase from 750 Mt (22% globally) in 2020 and 2.4 Gt (51%) in 2060, while higher-income regions shrink in both absolute and relative terms. Implementing several material efficiency strategies together in a High Efficiency (HE) scenario could almost half the baseline emissions. Yet, even in this scenario, the building material sector would require double its current proportional share of emissions to meet a 1.5 °C-compatible target. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0c45caf8-5bb3-42cf-aacf-cda539be202b DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26212-z ISSN 2041-1723 Source Nature Communications, 12 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Xiaoyang Zhong, Mingming Hu, Sebastiaan Deetman, Bernhard Steubing, H.X. Lin, G. Aguilar-Hernandez, Carina Harpprecht, Chunbo Zhang, Arnold Tukker, Paul Behrens Files PDF s41467_021_26212_z.pdf 1.21 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0c45caf8-5bb3-42cf-aacf-cda539be202b/datastream/OBJ/view