Energy requirements for decent living in India, Brazil and South Africa

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/88863 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/88863 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/88863 archive 353 disk0/00/01/61/74 2019-11-18 10:16:52 2024-09-09 12:44:41 2019-11-18 15:49:08 article show Rao N. 1961 0000-0003-1888-5292 Min J. 2098 0000-0002-0020-1174 Mastrucci A. 2129 0000-0002-5611-7780 Energy requirements for decent living in India, Brazil and South Africa pub prog_ene For over 30 years, researchers have tried to estimate how much energy societies require to provide for everyone’s basic needs. This question gains importance with climate change, because global scenarios of climate stabilization assume strong reductions in energy demand growth in developing countries. Here, we estimate bottom-up the energy embodied in the material underpinnings of decent living standards for India, Brazil and South Africa. We find that our estimates fall within these countries’ energy demand projections in global scenarios of climate stabilization at 2 °C, but to different extents. Further, national policies that encourage public transportation and sustainable housing construction will be critical to reduce these energy needs. The results of this study offer a benchmark to compare countries’ mitigation efforts and technology transfer arrangements to assess the extent to which they address development priorities in an equitable manner. 2019-11-18 published Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41560-019-0497-9 243 208 2872 public Nature Energy 4 12 1025-1032 TRUE 2058-7546 Energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards to all (DecentLivingEnergy, H2020 637462) FALSE yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/637462/EU//DecentLivingEnergy info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess