Mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light-duty passenger vehicles (LDVs) will be necessary to maintain global warming below 2 C, and ideally below 1.5 C. In this Seminar, Alex Milovanoff will present the common approaches to reduce GHG emissions from LDVs and the quantitative methods to assess them using life cycle assessment. Mitigation solutions, such as electric vehicles or ethanol provide great potential, taken individually, but are probably not sufficient on their own to be consistent with our climate ambition. Alex will showcase the tools he has developed to outline the mitigation pathways that are consistent with ambitious climate targets, and will discuss the implications to our transportation systems and policies.

Alex Milovanoff is finishing his PhD under the co-supervision of UTTRI associated faculty Professors I. Daniel Posen and Heather MacLean and starting his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering. He holds a MASc in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada, and an Engineer Degree with a major in energy systems from Supelec, France. His research aims to support the development of sustainable energy systems. Alex uses systems-level approaches to address complex environmental questions, and has explored themes revolving around the environmental assessment of electricity, of primary metals, and of large-scale deployment of greenhouse gas emission mitigation strategies in passenger transport such as alternative vehicle designs, ethanol, or electric vehicles. His work has been featured in Scientific American, the Daily Mail in the U.K., the Globe and Mail in Canada and the Washington Post in the U.S. Alex is a also a science communicator and you could have seen him on TV at BNN Bloomberg, heard him on the radio at CBC, Global News radio or Newstalk 1010, and read him in The Conversation Canada.

Read “Wide range of climate change mitigation strategies needed: Milovanoff, Posen, MacLean”

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Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE. All welcome.