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A robust asymptotic control model to analyze climate policy with CDR options

A three-region optimal economic growth model is proposed to represent the global energy transition to net-zero emissions when carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies are available. The main features of the model are (i) the representation of the economy ...

2025

Mixes of policy instruments for the full decarbonisation of energy systems: a review

Fleance George Cocker

Stand-alone carbon pricing is still predominantly advanced as the policy instrument of choice for abating greenhouse gas emissions, although it has enjoyed limited support in practice. Against this background, the current paper investigates whether combina ...

MDPI AG2025

Smart mobility innovations in regional transport services: a systemic view of triggers, approaches and outcomes in Japan

Mert Duygan, Jaïr Kees Evert Karel Campfens

Introduction: Regional urban and rural areas outside major metropolitan centres are facing escalating mobility challenges driven by declining socioeconomic vitality and demographic shifts like population decline and ageing. Smart mobility innovations – inc ...

Frontiers Media SA2025

Daylight and carbon interactions: An explorative method to reconcile daylight performance and carbon budget constraints

Marilyne Andersen, Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi

Existing daylight standards encourage larger glazed areas, which often results in larger solar gains in the summer and heat losses in the winter. To avoid these, shadings, thicker frames and multiple panes of glass are required to respect operational energ ...

2024

Between green hills and green bills: Unveiling the green shades of sustainability and burden shifting through multi-objective optimization in Swiss energy system planning

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Manuele Domenico Margni, Arthur Antoine Chuat

The Paris Agreement is the first-ever universally accepted and legally binding agreement on global climate change. It is a bridge between today's and climate-neutrality policies and strategies before the end of the century. Critical to this endeavor is ene ...

2024

Biomass screening for syngas production by flash photopyrolysis

Hubert Girault, Mathieu Soutrenon, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

A few seconds flash photopyrolysis is used as efficient screening tool for the investigation of selected biomass in producing syngas, hydrogen and biochar. This innovative approach allowed rapid pyrolysis of the biomass, which was followed by a precise gas ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Gradients of Deposition and In Situ Production Drive Global Glacier Organic Matter Composition

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Matteo Tolosano, Vincent Henri De Staercke, Michail Styllas, Martina Andrea Schön

Runoff from rapidly melting mountain glaciers is a dominant source of riverine organic carbon in many high-latitude and high-elevation regions. Glacier dissolved organic carbon is highly bioavailable, and its composition likely reflects internal (e.g., aut ...

2024

Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems

Gabriele Manoli

Contact with nature can contribute to health and wellbeing, but knowledge gaps persist regarding the environmental characteristics that promote these benefits. Understanding and maximising these benefits is particularly important in urban areas, where oppo ...

Elsevier BV2024

Quantifying the impact of urban trees on air quality in Geneva, Switzerland

Julia Schmale, Charlotte Grossiord, Aurèle Pulfer, Ilann Ernest Valentin Bourgeois

Atmospheric pollution threatens human health worldwide, with tropospheric ozone (O 3) and particulate matter (PM) among the most harmful pollutants. Urban trees can reduce the concentration of air pollutants through dry deposition on their canopies and sto ...

Elsevier BV2024

Biodegradable humidity sensor based on laser induced graphene electrodes scribed on wood

Johanna Zikulnig

The rapid growth of the electronics industry has brought about significant environmental challenges, including electronic waste and carbon emissions. To reduce the environmental impact, innovative sensing technologies are being explored. Laser-induced grap ...

New York2023

Molecular simulation on two-dimensional nanoporous material for energy-efficient separation

Mohammad Tohidivahdat

The energy-consumption by the chemical and petrochemical industry in the European Union (EU) accounts for about quarter of its energy footprint. Approximately half of this energy goes toward chemical separation, currently dominated by thermally-driven pro ...

EPFL2023

Reaching Paris Agreement goal through carbon dioxide removal development: A compact OR model

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau

A compact operations research (OR) model is proposed to analyse the prospects of meeting the Paris Agreement targets when direct air capture technologies can be used or not. The main features of the model are (i) the representation of the economy and energ ...

ELSEVIER2023

Hierarchical electricity-carbon trading for regional virtual federated prosumers

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui

Facing the dilemma of mitigating carbon emissions and growing energy demand, this paper proposes a hierar-chical electricity-carbon trading mechanism for virtual federated prosumers (VFPs) in regional markets. At the inter-regional level, a trading platfor ...

Elsevier2023

Selection and Optimal Use of Nanoporous Materials for Adsorption Energy Technologies

Emanuele Piccoli

Due to the large waste of heat in the power and industrial sectors, our use of energy is inefficient. Moreover, it relies on rapidly depleting and greenhouse-gas-emitting sources such as fossil fuels. While the scarcity of energy resources is a relevant so ...

EPFL2023

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The social discourse surrounding the climate emergency progressively infuses the society, transforming into both micro- and macro-social injunctions to change. Yet, society - grounded in a territorial, social, and cultural contingency - appears to resist t ...

EPFL2023