Take action on energy in buildings

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Posted on: 15 June 2012
By: mackene
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Buildings represent about 40% of primary energy used and associated CO2 emissions globally, making them a critical component shaping and driving the world’s energy consumption profile and related environmental impact. However financial, behavioral and knowledge barriers have stood in the way, until now. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development will launch a new market engagement oriented project, EEB 2.0, in 2012, with the aim of triggering action and implementation that addresses these barriers, and using the understanding the first phase of the EEB project developed from 2006 to 2010. Over the course of a proposed three-year project, EEB 2.0 intends to work with key decision-makers who are responsible for, or have influence over, substantial building portfolios in the public and private sectors. The project will develop a replicable process for bringing key decision-makers and relevant stakeholders together to identify practicable energy efficiency solutions in the portfolios they control, and will serve to scale up the implementation process across other decision maker portfolios.

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