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印度建筑的减排潜力

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Authors:
全球建筑最佳实践联盟 (The GBPN)

可靠证据表明,至2050年印度建筑领域会产生巨幅能源增长,基于此估测,本报告分析了印度目前建筑节能减排的政策框架及其节能潜力。

强大的建筑数据: 政策发展的动力

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Authors:
全球建筑最佳实践联盟 (The GBPN)

本报告就四个地区数据质量和数据的可利用性问题进行了分析,同时也提醒了我们需要完成多少工作才能建成一个强大而全面的建筑数据库,并提出了实现这个数据库的可行性建议。

 

强大的建筑数据: 政策发展的动力

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English
Authors:
全球建筑最佳实践联盟 (The GBPN)

本报告就四个地区数据质量和数据的可利用性问题进行了分析,同时也提醒了我们需要完成多少工作才能建成一个强大而全面的建筑数据库,并提出了实现这个数据库的可行性建议。

Robust Building Data: A Driver For Policy Development

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Authors:
GBPN

Data Annex

Discover where things stand regarding building energy data quality and availability in our four regions, this report reminds us of how far we have to go before a robust and comprehensive set of building data is in place and provides some recommendations of how we can get there.

Achieving scale in energy-efficient buildings in India: A view from the construction and real estate sectors

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Authors:
GBPN

A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), commissioned by the GBPN finds that while India’s commercial building sector has blazed the energy-effiency trail in the building sector, achieving significant scale will depend on efficiency measures becoming standard practice in the commercial middle market, retrofit and, particularly, the residential building segment. 

ESCO models for the retrofit of existing buildings in China [Executive Summary]

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Authors:
GBPN

Executive Summary

GBPN conducted a study on the factors affecting the use of ESCO models for the retrofit of existing buildings in China, identifying current barriers to the development of the Chinese ESCO market, while also researching best-practice examples of ESCOs globally and investigating the feasibility of introducing those examples to China. 

The international implications of national and local coordination on building energy codes: Case studies in six cities

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Authors:
Meredydd Evans,
Sha Yu,
Aaron Staniszewski,
Luting Jin,
Artur Denysenko

Building energy efficiency is an important strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions globally. In fact, 55 countries have included building energy efficiency in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. This research uses building energy code implementation in six cities across different continents as case studies to assess what it may take for countries to implement the ambitions of their energy efficiency goals.

USING DATA FOR POLICY: A MANUAL FOR C40 CITIES

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Authors:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
C40

This manual provides guidance and best practices on how to use data for developing and implementing policy on building energy efficiency. The primary audience for this manual are the C40 cities in the Private Building Efficiency (PBE) network and the Municipal Building Efficiency (MBE) network. Most of the guidance is applicable to both PBE and MBE networks. Where guidance is specific to PBE or MBE,it is called out accordingly. The users of the manual include city policy makers, efficiency program administrators and data analysts as well as external consultants supporting them.

Towards Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Europe: A Focus on Retrofit in Non-Residential Buildings

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Authors:
Delia D’Agostino,
Paolo Zangheri,
Luca Castellazzi

Buildings are the focus of European (EU) policies aimed at a sustainable and competitive low-carbon economy by 2020. Reducing energy consumption of existing buildings and achieving nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs) are the core of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the recast of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD). To comply with these requirements, Member States have to adopt actions to exploit energy savings from the building sector.

Overview of State Policies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

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Authors:
Yu Wang

This paper introduces the major state-level regulations and policies for improving energy efficiency in buildings. The purpose of the review is to discuss the challenges and issues in policy implementation and the latest trend in adopting innovative instruments. The implementation of customer efficiency programs increasingly incorporates non-price instruments to encourage participation and deep savings. States pay attention to not only code adoption and update but also compliance and evaluation.

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY RATING SCHEMES

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Authors:
Jacqui Bonnitcha,
Tom Davies

This project, “International Review of Residential Building Energy Efficiency Rating Schemes”, is the fifth project in a series of work conducted through the Building Energy Efficiency Task Group (BEET), under the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC). This project report presents key governance and administrative considerations in the design of energy efficiency rating schemes, available information on the cost-effectiveness and market impact of rating schemes, barriers to uptake of schemes and lessons learned from the implementation of schemes.

REVIEW OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF ENERGY SAVINGS: Task 1 Report ‘Energy Savings 2030’

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Authors:
R. Sauter,
A. Volkery

This report is the first report of the ‘Energy Savings 2030’-project which seeks to help the Coalition for Energy Savings to produce a robust and timely input to the 2030 policy discussion. It brings together and summarises recent empirical evidence on costs and benefits of energy efficiency measures. The evidence gap in terms of reliable ex-post data is well known. In the majority of cases results from ex-ante modelling studies inform the debate. The research carried out for this report confirms the persistent gap in publicly available ex-post evaluations of energy efficiency programmes.

Key Issues in Buildings Energy Efficiency Programs

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Authors:
Charles P. Ries,
Joseph Jenkins,
Oliver Wise

The EU and Australia have instituted significant new public policies to promote energy efficiency in the “built environment.” Many of these public policies were motivated by the same concerns that led to the pioneering voluntary initiatives of Green Building Councils (especially the LEED design certification program) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s ENERGY STAR system for buildings. However, policy initiatives on both continents are relatively new, have been recently modified, and are yet to be finalized.

Costs and Benefits of Energy Efficiency Obligation Schemes

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Authors:
Jan Roseno,
Edith Bayer

In 2009, the European Union adopted high-level goals for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas reductions with targets set toward the year 2020. This was followed in 2012 by adoption of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) (2012/27/EU), which included as a major component a requirement for Member States to create Energy Efficiency Obligations Schemes (EEOSs) on energy companies or equivalent alternative measures, and those provisions have now been in effect for three years.

The Macroeconomic and Other Benefits of Energy Efficiency

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Authors:
Eva Alexandri,
Piet Boonekamp,
Unnada Chewpreecha,
Antonio De Rose,
Roel Drost,
Laurent Estourgie,
Cyrus Farhangi,
Daniël Funcke,
Sanna Markkanen,
Guido Moret,
Hector Pollitt,
Caroline Rodenburg,
Felix Suerkemper,
Sacha Tensen,
Perrine Theillard,
Johannes Thema,
Paul Vethman,
Florin Vondung,
Monique Voogt

This report sets out the positive and negative impacts of improvements in energy efficiency in buildings that could come about through a recast of the Energy Performance Buildings Directive (EPBD). Successive studies have shown that energy efficiency offers many of the most cost-effective options for meeting global emission targets. In many cases, energy efficiency measures have been shown to be ‘negative cost’, meaning that it would be economically advantageous to implement them.

National Energy Productivity Plan: Work Plan

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Authors:
Australian Government

The National Energy Productivity Plan (NEPP) is a package of measures to improve Australia’s energy productivity by 40% between 2015 and 2030. The NEPP is delivered jointly between the Australian Government and the state and territory governments. Energy Ministers recognised that improving energy productivity helps: businesses reduce their energy costs through innovation and modernising their infrastructure; households benefit through lower energy bills and increased home comfort; Australia reduce its greenhouse emissions.

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