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Sustainable council buildings policy 2016

Policy report
Authors:
Boroondara City Council

A range of sustainability rating tools for buildings exist in Australia. In setting sustainability standards for Council buildings, this policy primarily references the GBCA’s holistic design framework and assessment tool ‘Green Star - Design and As Built’ , which is widely used in the commercial and local government sectors and considered the most appropriate tool for Council buildings.

Urban Efficiency: A Global Survey of Building Energy Efficiency Policies in Cities

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English
Authors:
Tomoko Takagi,
Ryuichi Horie,
Gregory Trencher,
Yuko Nishida,
Kaoru Nakanishi,
Kanako Okano,
Zoe Sprigings,
Shannon Lawrence,
Eric Ast,
Cristina Paula Miclea,
Peter Graham

A Global Survey of Building Energy Efficiency Policies in Cities is a resource for city officials around the world as they design new policies for building energy efficiency, or review existing ones. The research should help close the evidence gap regarding city-level activity in building energy efficiency. As such, it is designed to be accessible to those working in the field in general, including researchers.

Ecosystem based adaptation : knowledge gaps in making an economic case for investing in nature based solutions for climate change

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English
Authors:
Saima Baig,
Ali Reza Rizvi,
Michael Verdone

Ecosystem-based adaptation (Eba) uses biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of a larger adaptation strategy to climate change. While the conservation and sustainable development community considers EbA to be a strong method of addressing climate change and its associated challenges, there is still a tendency for policy makers to implement traditional engineering solutions for adaptation, rather than investing in EbA.

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