Building Electrification is Key to a Safe Climate Future
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is clear: In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world must dramatically reduce its carbon emissions and prevent global warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius. To achieve this, we must halve carbon emissions by 2030 and aim to fully decarbonize ("deep decarbonization") by 2050.
There’s new policy momentum around this pressing task, with ambitious proposals from presidential candidate Joe Biden, congressional Democrats and others recommending a suite of policies across all sectors of the economy. In order to achieve the necessary emissions cuts in the stubborn buildings sector, a broad swath of research concludes the same thing: The lowest-cost pathway to eliminate direct emissions from commercial and residential buildings is to electrify.
By GreenBiz