A review on buildings energy information: Trends, end-uses, fuels and drivers

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Buildings are a major contributor to climate change, accounting for one third of global energy consumption and one quarter of CO2 emissions. However, energy use in buildings will only curb if global cooperation enables developing nations to break the link between economic growth, urbanisation and consumption.

🔑 Key Findings

• However, comprehensive information is lacking for the development, evaluation and monitoring of mitigation policies.
• This paper discusses the remaining challenges in terms of reliability and consistency of the available data.
• A review of energy use in buildings is presented to analyse its evolution by building types, energy services and fuel sources.

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