Worldwide impacts of climate change on energy for heating and cooling

Maryse Labriet (), Santosh Joshi, Marc Vielle, Philip Holden, Neil Edwards, Amit Kanudia, Richard Loulou and Frédéric Babonneau

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2015, vol. 20, issue 7, 1136 pages

Abstract: The energy sector is not only a major contributor to greenhouse gases, it is also vulnerable to climate change and will have to adapt to future climate conditions. The objective of this study is to analyze the impacts of changes in future temperatures on the heating and cooling services of buildings and the resulting energy and macro-economic effects at global and regional levels. For this purpose, the techno-economic TIAM-WORLD (TIMES Integrated Assessment Model) and the general equilibrium GEMINI-E3 (General Equilibrium Model of International-National Interactions between Economy, Energy and Environment) models are coupled with a climate model, PLASIM-ENTS (Planet-Simulator- Efficient Numerical Terrestrial Scheme). The key results are as follows. At the global level, the climate feedback induced by adaptation of the energy system to heating and cooling is found to be insignificant, partly because heating and cooling-induced changes compensate and partly because they represent a limited share of total final energy consumption. However, significant changes are observed at regional levels, more particularly in terms of additional power capacity required to satisfy additional cooling services, resulting in increases in electricity prices. In terms of macro-economic impacts, welfare gains and losses are associated more with changes in energy exports and imports than with changes in energy consumption for heating and cooling. The rebound effect appears to be non-negligible. To conclude, the coupling of models of different nature was successful and showed that the energy and economic impacts of climate change on heating and cooling remain small at the global level, but changes in energy needs will be visible at more local scale. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Climate change; Heating; Cooling; Adaptation; Energy system; Bottom-up model; Computable general equilibrium model; Rebound effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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