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Towards Additional Policies to Improve the Environmental Performance of Buildings

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  • Andreas Uihlein
  • Peter Eder

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This report supports EU policymaking on sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in the area of buildings, which were indentified as being particularly relevant for environmental improvements. While the objective of SCP policies is to address all the different types of environmental impacts in a balanced way, previous research by the JRC-IPTS (IMPRO-Buildings study) has shown that the energy consumption during the use phase of the buildings is by far the most important factor to take into account for the life cycle environmental impacts of buildings. Moreover, residential buildings are responsible for 27 % of final energy demand in the EU. The report reviews the barriers towards energy efficiency and the measures to overcome. It then compiles an overview over existing and planned EU policy instruments dealing with the environmental and energy performance of buildings, building elements and equipment. Finally, barriers, available measures and policy instruments are assessed against each other to find out what more could be done and to assess if there are additional policies to the existing ones that could lead to further improvements.

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  • Andreas Uihlein & Peter Eder, 2009. "Towards Additional Policies to Improve the Environmental Performance of Buildings," JRC Research Reports JRC50149, Joint Research Centre.
    • Handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc50149
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    1. Dalia Streimikiene & Tomas Balezentis, 2020. "Willingness to Pay for Renovation of Multi-Flat Buildings and to Share the Costs of Renovation," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-16, May.
    2. Zhang, Yurong & Wang, Yuanfeng, 2013. "Barriers' and policies' analysis of China's building energy efficiency," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 768-773.
    3. Theofano Fotiou & Alessia de Vita & Pantelis Capros, 2019. "Economic-Engineering Modelling of the Buildings Sector to Study the Transition towards Deep Decarbonisation in the EU," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-28, July.
    4. Murto, Pekka & Jalas, Mikko & Juntunen, Jouni & Hyysalo, Sampsa, 2019. "The difficult process of adopting a comprehensive energy retrofit in housing companies: Barriers posed by nascent markets and complicated calculability," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 955-964.
    5. Dalia Streimikiene & Tomas Balezentis, 2019. "Innovative Policy Schemes to Promote Renovation of Multi-Flat Residential Buildings and Address the Problems of Energy Poverty of Aging Societies in Former Socialist Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-18, April.

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    envitonment; buildings; SCP;
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