Aperçu des sections
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia do Ambiente, FCT-UNL
Energia e Alterações Climáticas (EAC) / Energy and Climate Change, 2020/21
How can we provide the benefits of energy to the population of the globe without damaging the environment, negatively affecting social stability, or threatening the well-being of future generations? in Sustainable Energy, MIT 2005
The Paris Agreement: the world unites to fight climate change. EU ClimateAction.-
Troca de informações relevantes para a turma e esclarecimento de dúvidas.
Information exchange, question & answer.
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Anonymous questionnaire on the quality of EAC
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1 –Energy & Climate Change: a complex, interdisciplinary and perennial relation. Practicalities of the course (J. Seixas)
11 March
The relationship between energy and climate change. Signals and opportunity for action. The importance of a systemic change of the energy system. Where is the innovation to solve the climate change problem?
How the course will develop? Evaluation components.
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3- Greenhouse effect and global budgets of CO2, CH4 and N2O (J. Seixas)
18 march
Brief presentation of the greenhouse effect. Global CO2 Budget: emissions from fossil energy and land use changes. Emissions from energy sources and countries. Carbon intensity. Global methane emissions and sources. Global nitrous oxide emissions and sources.
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Impacts of climate changes (J. Seixas)
25 march
Evidences of changes in climate variables (with a focus on 2020): temperature, rainfall, ice extent, ocean heat content and sea level rise, extremes climate and weather events). Examples of impacts on natural and human systems. Future scenarios of climate variables in brief. From changes in climate to system’s vulnerability: clarification of concepts of exposure, sensitivity, climate impact and vulnerability; the need for adaptation. -
Renewables (J. Seixas)
29 march
Highlights on international renewables state of the art. Concepts to understand the role of renewables in the energy system: technology learning curves, capacity factor, cost curves and LCOE, system value of renewables, environmental and sustainability aspects of renewables.
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Renewables | GHG inventories
8 april
Conclusion of the Renewables subject, from last class. Greenhouse gas emissions inventories. The UNFCCC Common Report Format (CRF): structure, and contents. Looking deeper ar the Energy sector.
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How companies deal with Climate Change? (J. Seixas)
19 april
Climate change risks for companies. Mitigation, adaptation and risk management for the case of companies. GHG emissions inventories. Carbon footprint of products. Racionale and examples of carbon voluntary markets.
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POLICY AND ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE I (J. Seixas)
12 april
Global framework to deal with climate change: UNFCCC, Paris Agreement. Fundamentals of carbon and climate economics: risks and opportunities for organisations and businesses. Insights on Carbon pricing: emissions trading schemes, carbon taxes.
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Energy transition in the 21st century: the role of economic sectors
Presentation by the students.
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Home Energy Plan (3 May)
Energy plan for a residential building: energy uses, performance indicators, energy classification, savings potencial and analysis, business plan. Explanation of Assigment 3.
Energy comfort and bioclimatic architecture (6 May)
Concept of climatic comfort. Solar radiation and microclimatic variations. Bioclimatic comfort: principles, World examples and focus on the Portuguese case. Thermal behaviour of buildings: principles and some practical solutions. Passive solar systems. Invited speaker: Prof. Luís Rosmaninho (FAUL).
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"Avaliação do potencial de poupança de energia na habitação em Portugal", João Grilo
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Energy auditing: theory (10 May)
Energy auditing: definition and goals; methodology and tasks; data analysis; energy balances; brief review of common energy efficiency measures.
Residential building certification: theory and regulation (13 May)
Building certification — European directive and regulation. Principles and methods to compute energy behaviour of buildings. The Portuguese Regulation for the certification of residential buildings (REH).
Residential building certification: REH application (17 May)
Explanation of the use of Excel worksheet to compute the energy class of residential buildings according to the REH.
Energy auditing: exercises (20 May)Clarification about the application of REH to case-studies. Exercise on the energy balance of a thermal machine.
Energy efficiency in the industry (27 May)
Present context. Opportunities in the industry. Immediate measures. Energy auditing.
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National energy system: trends, policy, distortions (24 May)
Trends in the Portuguese energy system, their causes and consequences. Evaluation of policy decisions. Energy market distortions.
Alternative energy strategy (31 May)
Priorities for energy policy: efficiency, decentralized generation, sustainable mobility, facing poverty.
Sustainable mobility: doctrine and planning (8 June)
Mobility and land use management. Doctrine and models for the operational management of public transport systems. Comparing the Portuguese case with international examples.
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Melo, J.J., Sousa, M.J.F., Pereira, A.M., Fernandes, F., Galvão, A., Grilo, J. (2021). Strategy for a sustainable decarbonization of the energy sector in Portugal: identification of priority policy measures. In: Mauerhof, V. (Ed), The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability, 81-99. Series on Sustainable Development Research. Routledge, London and New York. ISBN: 978-0-367-74632-2
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Hands-on energy balance (J. Seixas)
7 JunePart I: Energy statistics: where are they; understanding and exploring statistical energy data balances.
Part II: Energy topics you must be aware of (and we did not have the opportunity to talk about them)
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14 and 17 June
Discussion of the Home Energy Plan based on selected presentations.