Resource Efficiency and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Efficiency

scholarly journals Documentation of part IV of the RECC model framework: Open Dynamic Material Systems Model for the Resource Efficiency-Climate Change Nexus (ODYM-RECC), v2.2

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Pauliuk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Efficiency ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Model Version ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Material Efficiency ◽  
Material Systems ◽  
Change Material

This report contains the documentation of the ODYM-RECC model version 2.2, used to generate the RECC scenarios for the IRP report “Resource Efficiency and Climate Change - Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future”

scholarly journals Linking Service Provision to Material Cycles – A New Framework for Studying the Resource Efficiency-Climate Change Nexus (RECC)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Pauliuk ◽  
Tomer Fishman ◽  
Niko Heeren ◽  
Peter Berrill ◽  
Qingshi Tu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Resource Efficiency ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Material Cycle ◽  
Material Efficiency ◽  
Material Cycles ◽  
Change Mitigation

Material production accounts for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions. More efficient use of materials – through decoupling of services that support human wellbeing from material use – is imperative as other emissions mitigation options are expensive. An interdisciplinary scientific assessment of material efficiency and its links to service provision, material cycle management, and climate policy is needed to identify effective strategies and help design the policy framework required for their implementation. We present RECC, the Resource Efficiency-Climate Change mitigation framework, a first step towards such a comprehensive assessment. RECC is based on dynamic material flow analysis and links the services provided (individual motorized transport and dwelling) to the operation of in-use stocks (passenger vehicles and residential buildings), to the expansion and maintenance of these stocks to their material cycles (major materials like steel and cement), and to energy use and climate impacts. A key innovation of RECC is the up-scaling of detailed descriptions of future product archetypes with different degrees of material and energy efficiency, which are simulated with engineering tools.We utilize RECC with augmented storylines of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP) to describe future service demand and associated material requirements. Ten material efficiency strategies at different stages of the material cycle can be assessed by ramping up their implementation rates to the identified technical potentials. RECC provides scenario results for the life cycle impacts of ambitious service-material decoupling concurrent with energy system decarbonization, giving detailed insights on the resource efficiency-climate change mitigation nexus to policy makers worldwide.

scholarly journals HOW TO SENSITIZE THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY TO RESOURCE EFFICIENCY CONSIDERATIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED RISKS

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250017 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATHIAS ONISCHKA ◽  
CHRISTA LIEDTKE ◽  
NINO DAVID JORDAN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Resource Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Risk Controlling

Increasing resource efficiency can potentially deliver important economic and environmental benefits. Many of these benefits are regularly foregone because the financial sector's capacity to adequately take the opportunities and risks arising from resource utilization and related climate change aspects into account has so far remained relatively undeveloped. Focusing on the case of Germany, a number of barriers to the inclusion of resource efficiency and climate change aspects into financial services' considerations are presented. Corresponding measures for improving the capacity of the financial sector to better integrate resource efficiency considerations and climate change related risks into its operating procedures are introduced. The measures encompass the areas of risk controlling, company reporting, institutional reporting requirements, as well as additional supporting measures.

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