Subject: Climate change mitigationEnergy managementISO 50001, Savings methodology, Energy savings, Greenhouse gas emissions
Year: 2017
Type: Article
Title: Predicting the quantifiable impacts of ISO 50001 on climate change mitigation
Author: McKane A., Therkelsena P., Scodel A., Rao P., Aghajanzadeh A., Hirzel S., Zhang R., Prem R., Fossa A., Lazarevska A. M., Matteini M., Schreck B., Allard F., Alcántar N. V., Steyn K., Hürdoğan E., Björkman Th., O'Sullivan J.
Abstract: Energy consumption in the industrial and commercial (service) sectors accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing this energy consumption will be critical for countries to achieve their national greenhouse gas reduction commitments. The ISO 50001-Energy management standard provides a continual improvement framework for organizations to reduce their consumption. Several national policies already support ISO 50001; however, there is no transparent, consistent process to estimate the potential impacts of its implementation. This paper presents the ISO 50001 Impacts Methodology, an internationally-developed methodology to calculate these impacts at a national, regional, or global scale suitable for use by policymakers. The recently-formed ISO 50001 Global Impacts Research Network provides a forum for policymakers to refine and encourage use of the methodology. Using this methodology, a scenario with 50% of projected global industrial and service sector energy consumption under ISO 50001 management by 2030 would generate cumulative primary energy savings of approximately 105 EJ, cost savings of nearly US $700 billion (discounted to 2016 net present value), and 6500 million metric tons (Mt) of avoided CO2 emissions. The avoided annual CO2 emissions in 2030 alone are equivalent to removing 210 million passenger vehicles from the road.
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Relation: Energy Policy
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/7176
Identifier: Aimee McKane, Peter Therkelsen, Anna Scodel, Prakash Rao, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Simon Hirzel, Ruiqin Zhang, Richard Prem, Alberto Fossa, Ana M. Lazarevska, Marco Matteini, Bettina Schreck, Fabian Allard, Noé Villegal Alcántar, Karel Steyn, Ertaç Hürdoğan, Thomas Björkman, John O'Sullivan, Predicting the quantifiable impacts of ISO 50001 on climate change mitigation, Energy Policy, Volume 107, 2017, Pages 278-288
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7176Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.04.049
