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EU not on track to meet its energy efficiency targets for 2020

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5 years ago
While EU is on track to meet its 2020 greenhouse emission and renewable energy targets, energy efficiency will be a big miss. The targets that were set in 2012 failed…

Tech innovations that may help reduce carbon impact

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5 years ago
With the growing awareness about the need for reducing carbon emissions and embodied carbon in construction, there has been an influx of investment on creating software and tools that help…

Resilient plans may not be resilient enough to global crisis

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The whole world is preparing for the challenge of climate change and the major urban cities have created resilience plans for the same. While these plans include energy efficiency and…

India should focus on becoming more energy efficient

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Energy efficiency is the most cost-effective climate mitigation option. The primary energy intensity improvement in India slowed down for a third consecutive year. While there have been steps taken in…

2020 Greenbuild Leadership Award winners in India

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5 years ago
In recognition of their work in advancing the development of sustainable and resilient buildings, cities and communities, architect & engineer Padma Shri Ar C N Raghavendran along with 5 organizations…

WorldGBC sets goals to tackle embodied carbon levels

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5 years ago
With the growing awareness about carbon emission sources, the attention is now increasing towards lowering the embodied carbon which amounts to 11% of the annual global emissions. As operational emissions…

Key target areas to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2020

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5 years ago
While achieving net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 is realistic, it needs concentrated effort. Three key areas which will be crucial in achieving this are: scaling up technologies that help us…

Denmark investing in Hydrogen energy

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The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities is set to invest DKK 128 million in the construction of two large-scale electrolysis plants, in hopes that the country’s surplus of…

Ireland to focus on a near zero energy future for housing

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The Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Damien English, T.D., has called on the construction industry to be prepared for the revised building regulations that apply to all new dwellings…

NZEB goals assisting the rise of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics

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5 years ago
While building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) has been commercially available for use since the 1990s, we are finally seeing them playing a larger role in the construction business. Evolving regulations in…
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