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Mainstreaming Building Energy Efficiency Codes in Developing Countries - Global Experiences and Lessons from Early Adopters (Paperback)
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Mainstreaming Building Energy Efficiency Codes in Developing Countries - Global Experiences and Lessons from Early Adopters (Paperback)
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Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a
large increase of demand for modern energy services in residential,
commercial and public-service buildings in the coming decades.
Pursuing energy efficiency in buildings is vital to energy security
in developing countries and is identified by the Intergovernment
Panel on Climate Change as having the greatest potential for
cost-effective reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030 among all
energy-consuming sectors. Building energy efficiency codes (BEECs),
along with energy efficiency standards for major appliances and
equipment, are broadly recognized as a necessary government
intervention to overcome persistent market barriers to capturing
the economic potential of energy efficiency gains in the
residential, commercial and public-service sectors. Implementation
of BEECs help prevent costly energy wastes over the lifecycles of
buildings in space heating, air conditioning, lighting, and other
energy service requirements. Nonetheless, achieving the full
potential of energy savings afforded by more energy-efficient
buildings requires holding people who live or work in buildings
accountable for the cost of energy services. Compliance enforcement
has been the biggest challenge to implementing BEECs. This report
summarizes the findings of an extensive literature survey of the
experiences of implementing BEECs in developed countries, as well
as those from case studies of China, Egypt, India, and Mexico. It
also serves as a primer on the basic features and contents of BEECs
and the commonly adopted compliance and enforcement approaches.
This report highlights the key challenges to improving compliance
enforcement in developing countries, including government
commitment to energy efficiency, the effectiveness of government
oversight of the construction sector, the compliance capacity of
building supply chain, and financing constraints. The report notes
that the process of transforming a country s building supply chain
toward delivering increasingly more energy-efficient buildings
takes time and requires persistent government intervention through
uniformly enforced and regularly updated BEECs. The report
recommends increased international support in strengthening the
enforcement infrastructure for BEECs in middle-income developing
countries. For low- and lower-middle-income countries, there is an
urgent need to assist in improving the effectiveness of government
oversight system for building construction, laying the foundation
for the system to also cover BEECs."
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