Inventory of carbon and energy; ICE database

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The workshop titled Existing buildings as resource in climate change mitigation highlighted a need to promote a greater understanding of the existing building stock as an asset in climate change mitigation. 

The next step would be to develop a model for calculating the climate gas emissions which these buildings hold.

The Inventory of Carbon and Energy (also know as the ICE database) is an embodied energy and embodied carbon footprint database for building materials. ICE database contains data for over 200 materials, broken down into over 30 main material categories (such as cement, concrete, glass, timber, plastics, steel…etc). The embodied energy data provides the energy consumed to make a building material. This consumption of energy then gives rise to embodied carbon emissions (also know as CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon footprint or CO2e emissions).

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“The (un)avoidable Cimate Change”

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Professor Rummulainen entitled his keynote lecture as The (un)avoidable Climate Change.

“Climate change is a real, concrete and urgent issue. It can be curbed in the long run if necessary actions and decisions are implemented. Some continued climate change is, however, now unavoidable and this will increasinly permeat our everyday life during the next few decades. Such climate impacts will need to be dealt with. Climate change is of global, regional and local concern, and as such an issue for each and everyone of us” , Rummukainen says.

Plenary session 27.3. 10am – 12am; The National Museum of Finland

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Nordic expert meeting begins with a plenary session, which is open to the public.
Keynote speaker Markku Rummukainen,professor in climatology at Lund University and associate professor in meteorology at the University of Helsinki, will start the plenary session.
Maunu Häyrynen, professor in landscape studies at University of Turku, will Introduce a summary of previous Terrestrial Ecosystem Group & other Nordic reports on climate change and heritage.
During the second half of the plenary session the project group shall give a national overview about the situation in the Nordic countries.
The plenary session will be held in the auditorium.

Programme:

10am                  opening words; Director Mikko Alestalo, Finnish Meteorological Institute

10.05                  Keynote; Professor Markku Rummukainen, Lund University

10.35                  Overview of the existing reports:Professor  Maunu Häyrynen, University of Turku

Situation in the Nordic countries

10.55                  Finland; Mikko Härö, National Board of Antiquities

11.05                  Norway; Marte Boro, Riksantikvaren

11.15                  Sweden; Kaj Thuresson Riksantikvarieämbetet

11.25                  Iceland; Uggi Ævarsson, Minjastofnun Islands

11.35                  Denmark; Poul Klentz Larsen, National Museum Denmark

What is the meeting about?

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The expert meeting includes a plenary session and three workshops;

  • Heritage solutions in adaptation to climate change and future risks
  • Heritage in climate change mitigation; sustainable landscape and town planning
  • Existing buildings as resource in climate change mitigation

Invited experts discuss during the workshop with their Nordic colleagues and produce joint recommendations as an outcome for future policies and implementations in the Nordic countries. These recommendations shall be included to the project report.