Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings
WBCSD
2009 World Business Council for Sustainable Development, http://www.wbcsd.org/Plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?DocTypeId=25&ObjectId=MzQyMDQ
WBCSD, (2009), " Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings", World Business Council for Sustainable Development, http://www.wbcsd.org/Plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?DocTypeId=25&ObjectId=MzQyMDQ.
Abstract:
To achieve an energy-efficient world, governments, businesses and individuals must transform the building sector through a multitude of actions, which include increasing energy awareness globally. Buildings today account for 40% of the world's energy use. The resulting carbon emissions are substantially more than those in the transportation sector. New buildings that will use more energy than necessary are being built every day, and millions of today's inefficient buildings will remain standing in 2050. We must start now to aggressively reduce energy use in new and existing buildings to reduce the planet's energy-related carbon footprint by 77%, or 48 gigatonnes (against the 2050 baseline), to stabilize atmospheric CO 2 concentrations at the level called for by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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