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Eco-efficient Materials for Mitigating Building Cooling Needs - Design, Properties and Applications (Hardcover)
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Eco-efficient Materials for Mitigating Building Cooling Needs - Design, Properties and Applications (Hardcover)
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Climate change is one of the most important environmental problems
faced by Planet Earth. The majority of CO2 emissions come from
burning fossil fuels for energy production and improvements in
energy efficiency shows the greatest potential for any single
strategy to abate global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the
energy sector. Energy related emissions account for almost 80% of
the EU's total greenhouse gas emissions. The building sector is the
largest energy user responsible for about 40% of the EU's total
final energy consumption. In Europe the number of installed air
conditioning systems has increased 500% over the last 20 years, but
in that same period energy cooling needs have increased more than
20 times. The increase in energy cooling needs relates to the
current higher living and working standards. In urban environments
with low outdoor air quality (the general case) this means that in
summer-time one cannot count on natural ventilation to reduce
cooling needs. Do not forget the synergistic effect between heat
waves and air pollution which means that outdoor air quality is
worse in the summer aggravating cooling needs. Over the next few
years this phenomenon will become much worse because more people
will live in cities, more than 2 billion by 2050 and global warming
will aggravate cooling needs.
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