IPCC: Residential and commercial buildings

Authors: Mark Levine, and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
January 1, 2007

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on climate change to assess the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant for understanding the risk of human-induced climate change. This chapter covers residential and commercial buildings, their impacts on the environment and options for making them more energy efficient.

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