September 10, 2024, Filed Under: UncategorizedCheck out our new paper! New paper alert !! In a great collaboration between Schools of Architecture, Policy and Engineering we present IMPACT Pathways, a bottom-up model with residence level granularity to estimate carbon emission pathways in cities under the impact of climate change, urban planning/development, technology adoption and grid decarbonization. We evaluate for a case study in Austin, TX. Some key findings: – the need to include long-term climate change forecasts for energy demand estimation – short-term emission reductions can be cancelled out by long-term developments – one positive decarbonization mechanism (eg grid decarbonization) can be overturned by another one (eg urban development) – several decarbonization scenarios can produce similar short-term results, but differ in the longer term Great leadership by Juliana Felkner, with team members Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, D. Cale Reeves, Ph.D. and many more Check it out Link: https://lnkd.in/gJ2Jc-Sg Dashboard: https://lnkd.in/gPQR7t8y The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin The LBJ School of Public Affairs Support by UT Energy Institute https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19401493.2024.2388229
