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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Buildings: Good Intentions Unfulfilled
Authors : Elin Lerum Boasson, Claire Dupont
Published in: Decarbonization in the European Union
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The European building stock consumes about 40 per cent of final energy in the EU and is responsible for about half of the CO2 emissions not covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (BPIE, 2011; European Commission, 2013). Reducing buildings’ energy consumption reduces demand for fossil fuel-generated energy, thus contributing to a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to the achievement of decarbonization.