Predicting the quantifiable impacts of ISO 50001 on climate change mitigation

Journal Article · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Energy Policy

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.04.049· OSTI ID:1408454

McKane, Aimee; Therkelsen, Peter; Scodel, Anna; Rao, Prakash; Aghajanzadeh, Arian; Hirzel, Simon; Zhang, Ruiqin; Prem, Richard; Fossa, Alberto; Lazarevska, Ana M.; Matteini, Marco; Schreck, Bettina; Allard, Fabian; Villegal Alcántar, Noé; Steyn, Karel; Hürdoğan, Ertaç; Björkman, Thomas; O'Sullivan, John

The ISO 50001-Energy management standard provides a continual improvement framework for organizations to reduce their energy consumption, which 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. 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.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. Department of State; USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1408454
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1396926
• Journal Information: Energy Policy, Journal Name: Energy Policy Journal Issue: C Vol. 107; ISSN 0301-4215
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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