4 papers
Tracking enduring urban-rural inequities in residential heating and cooling loads across Chinese provinces
Qinwen Tang, Ran Yan, Nan Zhou +1
Climate change and rising thermal comfort demand make residential heating and cooling central to building-sector decarbonization. This study presents the first bottom-up modeling f…
Building floorspace and stock measurement: A review of global efforts, knowledge gaps, and research priorities
Minda Ma, Shufan Zhang, Junhong Liu +4
Despite a substantial body of research-evidenced by our analysis of 2,628 peer-reviewed papers-global building floorspace data remain fragmented, inconsistent, and methodologically…
India's residential space cooling transition: Decarbonization ambitions since the turn of millennium
Ran Yan, Nan Zhou, Minda Ma +1
As an emerging emitter poised for significant growth in space cooling demand, India requires comprehensive insights into historical emission trends and decarbonization performance…
Provincial allocation of China's commercial building operational carbon towards carbon neutrality
Yanqiao Deng, Minda Ma, Nan Zhou +4
National carbon peak track and optimized provincial carbon allocations are crucial for mitigating regional inequality within the commercial building sector during China's transitio…