Title:
Integrating health co-benefits assessment across the whole energy system
Abstract:
As the buildout of renewable energy has progressed, health co-benefits assessments have been done alongside evaluating the health benefits of these changes to electricity generation. To meet our goal of keeping climate change below 2°C, the current strategies being debated are to electrify other uses of fossil fuels, including transportation and building heating and cooling and build renewable energy alongside to meet this additional electricity demand. This talk will discuss recent applications of co-benefits assessments to the electrical grid and climate policy, how these same methods are being applied to buildings and transportation, and why health considerations should be more deeply integrated into energy policy.
Bio:
Jonathan Buonocore, Sc.D. is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research mainly focuses on evaluating the health impacts of energy systems, modeling health “co-benefits” and environmental justice attributes of climate mitigation strategies and energy policies across electricity generation, transportation, buildings, and oil & gas production. His current research is focusing on health impacts of the offshore wind cancellation and health benefits of changes to energy systems in buildings, especially utility gas.
Register:
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/s/84338029001#success
Venue:
DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre
200 University Avenue West
DC 1302
Waterloo, ON, CA N2L 3G1
Snacks will be provided for registrants.