What is a Low Carbon Transformation? Buildings Technology (Part IV)

The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final global energy use in 2018[1]. This staggering share of the world’s energy trickles down to a large share of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions where buildings accounted for 39% of the world’s emissions in that same year. It is important to highlight that over a quarter of these emissions came from manufacturing essential products needed for building constructions such as steel, cement, and glass. The buildings sector is very different from other economic sectors. The buildings sector is characterized with a slow pace of change, it is usually associated with relatively…...