The «2030 Challenge» clearly outlines a global strategy to immediately stabilize and begin reducing
building sector GHG emissions, with the goal of realizing a 60 % to 80 % reduction below today's level by 2050.
Sixteen of the world's leading architectural institutions sign the Las Vegas Declaration, a commitment to reduce
the Building Sectors GHG emissions.
Not exact matches
You must address the
building sector if we are to accomplish significant
ghg reduction.
With this $ 100 billion initiative, Citi will
build on its leadership in renewable energy and energy efficiency financing to engage with clients to identify opportunities to finance greenhouse gas (
GHG) reductions and resource efficiency in other
sectors, such as sustainable transportation... http://www.citigroup.com/citi/news/2015/150218a.htm
Based on the statistics from the table below, the
buildings sector has had differential success in addressing Canada's commitment to the Kyoto Agreement, which requires reductions to six per cent below 1990
GHG emission levels between 2008 - 2012.
When the entire existing global
building sector — 1.49 trillion square feet — is taken into account, annual
building operations energy consumption and
GHG emissions greatly exceeds the annual embodied energy and emissions of new construction.
In New York, the transportation (34 %) and homes /
buildings (31 %)
sectors contribute the most
GHG emissions.
Baden - Württemberg's greenhouse gas (
GHG) emissions are split quite equitably between three main
sectors; power with more than 20 %, transportation with nearly 30 % and
buildings with about 25 %.
This new case study shows how the state of Upper Austria is activating both the consumer and supply sides through information and capacity
building measures to reduce greenhouse gas (
GHG) emissions from the heating
sector.
Energy - related
GHG emissions are a by - product of the conversion and delivery
sector (which includes extraction / refining, electricity generation and direct transport of energy carriers in pipelines, wires, ships, etc.), as well as the energy end - use
sectors (transport,
buildings, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste), as outlined in Chapters 5 to 10 (Figure 4.1).
This technical document examines energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (
GHG) emission reductions in the
building sector.
Projected U.S.
building sector energy consumption and greenhouse gas (
GHG) emissions to the year 2030 have declined for eleven straight years since the 2030 Challenge was issued in 2005.