Join our network. Make change happen.Energy Efficiency and Energy Savings: A View from the Building Sector
Highlights
A survey of senior building sector executives on the feasibility of implementing energy efficiency measures across their sector in China, Europe, India and the U.S.
Reports
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A Comparative Analysis of Building Energy Efficiency Policies for New Buildings
Energy use in buildings is responsible for more than 30% of global CO2 emissions and has a significant role to play in climate change mitigation, given the large potential savings in both new and existing buildings.
Achieving Scale in the US: A View from the Construction and Real Estate Sectors
Briefing
An EIU survey commissioned by the GBPN in collaboration with IMT about the U.S. real estate and construction executives's opinion of energy efficiency in the building sector.
Briefing什么是深度改造的定义？
什么是“深度”改造？GBPN就此召集大西洋两岸的合作者共同研讨后统一了其定义。我们就目前最常用的两个表达方式深度改造和深度整修的定义达成了共识。
Buildings For Our Future, The Deep Path for Closing the Emissions Gap in the Building Sector
Why buildings hold the key to a low-carbon future? The GBPN provides evidence that ambitious improvements in the energy performance of buildings can reduce their CO2 emissions by one third by 2050 and sets out the necessary steps towards a "Deep market transformation".
中国建筑节能政策：进程报告
第一份用英文详尽阐述的关于中国建筑节能政策研究的国际报告。
强大的建筑数据: 政策发展的动力
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。
Investing in Energy Efficiency in Europe’s Buildings. A view from the Construction and Real Estate Sectors
Case Study
A survey among building sector and real estate business executives in Europe on the feasibility of implementing energy efficiency measures across their sector
Investing in Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Challenges & Opportunities in China
Highlights
Experts from the GBPN network provide analysis and recommendations on how to improve energy efficiency of buildings in China.
EROI of different fuels and the implications for society
Abstract: All forms of economic production and exchange involve the use of energy directly and in the transformation of materials. Until recently, cheap and seemingly limitless fossil energy has allowed most of society to ignore the importance of contributions to the economic process from the biophysical world as well as the potential limits to growth. This paper centres on assessing the energy costs of modern day society and its relation to GDP.
Reducing Energy Demand in Existing Buildings: Learning from Best Practice Renovation Policies
Highlights
The GBPN has created an on-line Policy Tool for Renovation which allows the user to understand the need for and the benefits of a package of complementary policies to embark on a highly ambitious renovation strategy.
Residential Buildings in India: Energy Use Projections and Savings Potentials [Baseline]
This new GBPN report jointly developed with the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, provides a first attempt to document energy saving potentials that could be achieved in India by 2050 in the residential sector. Four energy scenarios have been developed to identify the potential energy savings, each relating to a level of ambition of building performance policies and market efforts.
Designing and Implementing Best Practice Building Codes: Insights from Policy Makers
The new Policy Paper released today captures the main findings of the dialogue initiated by the GBPN with practitioners and international code experts on the design and implementation of best practice building codes.
Compare renovation policy packages
This interactive “Policy Tool for Renovation” facilitates the comparison and analysis of twelve renovation policy packages for residential buildings from Europe and the United States. Fourteen specially developed criteria have been developed, with the support of a panel of international experts, to enable this analysis.
The tool allows for:
1. Compare policy packages based on different criteria by selecting and deselecting criteria in the interactive tool above.
Linking Building Energy Codes With Benchmarking and Disclosure Policies, Key Synergies that Drive Building Energy Performance
A new Policy Paper released today by GBPN and the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), the GBPN US Hub, highlights the importance to link energy codes and benchmarking and disclosure policies if we want to reduce building energy consumption.
Reducing Energy Demand in Existing Buildings: Learning from Best Practice Renovation Policies
The GBPN has created an on-line Policy Tool for Renovation which allows the user to understand the need for and the benefits of a package of complementary policies to embark on a highly ambitious renovation strategy.
