Decarbonisation of the Urban Built Environment Through Vegetation-Based Carbon Sequestration

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aut.relation.conferenceWorld Building Congress 2022
aut.relation.endpage062025
aut.relation.issue6
aut.relation.startpage062025
aut.relation.volume1101
dc.contributor.authorVarshney, K
dc.contributor.authorPedersen Zari, Maibritt
dc.contributor.authorBakshi, N
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-30T21:14:05Z
dc.date.available2023-03-30T21:14:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-07
dc.description.abstractThe impacts of climate change require a strategic improvement in design decision-making. Leading professionals are aiming for carbon-positive buildings that can achieve carbon sequestration by adding vegetation to buildings. Multiple references and case studies explored in this paper suggest that there is theoretical potential for cities to become carbon sinks by constructing carbon-positive buildings. However, determining effective strategies, and quantifying and monitoring carbon sequestration in buildings, requires a standardised approach so that this carbon sequestration potential can be measurably established. This paper provides two key outputs: firstly, the paper identifies strategies that could shift buildings towards being capable of active carbon sequestration. Secondly, the paper provides a methodological framework with four key considerations that building professionals can use to design for carbon sequestration. These are: understanding the site's ecological, climatic, cultural and legal context; identifying response, pressure, state and benefits indicators to set carbon sequestration targets; considering site ecosystem functioning and carbon dynamics to strategise carbon sequestration through design; and preparing long-term monitoring, evaluation and management plans. This paper identifies two areas for further investigation: linking manual quantification methods with computer-aided methods; and utilising biomass data and growth models at the landscape, regional, and global levels for carbon sequestration assessment.
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1755-1315/1101/6/062025
dc.identifier.issn1755-1307
dc.identifier.issn1755-1315
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/16059
dc.publisherIOP Publishing
dc.relation.urihttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/6/062025
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
dc.subject37 Earth Sciences
dc.subject30 Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences
dc.subject41 Environmental Sciences
dc.subject15 Life on Land
dc.subject30 Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
dc.subject37 Earth sciences
dc.subject41 Environmental sciences
dc.titleDecarbonisation of the Urban Built Environment Through Vegetation-Based Carbon Sequestration
dc.typeConference Contribution
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