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Building Energy Efficiency: Opportunities for International Collaboration

Summary

The report identifies several “policy collaboration areas”, highlighted as priority areas of action. They include (1) Building codes and Regulation, (2) Appliance and equipment standards and labels, (3) Building rating, labelling, and disclosure, (4) Building component standards and labels. A second set of priority areas of action is addressed by the report as “enabling collaboration areas" includes (1) Data availability and quality and (2) Education and capacity building. A third relevant category to be considered is “Metrics”, which refers to the importance of defining appropriate standards metrics. In this framework, international collaboration can play a key role in helping countries to implement the related policy measures, although the national and regional authorities are ultimately responsible for implementing the building energy policies.