This session will explore how electrifying buildings and improving energy efficiency can drive rapid, large-scale reductions in building-sector emissions. As the sector accounts for nearly 40 percent of global energy-related emissions, the transition to efficient, electrified heating and cooling is critical to achieving global climate targets.
Speakers from Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Kenya will share public and private perspectives on whole life carbon as a decision-making framework and the importance of cutting operational emissions. Representatives from the UK Climate Change Committee, Germany’s energy agency DENA, the International Energy Agency, Daikin, and Arup will examine how electrified, energy-efficient solutions can accelerate the decarbonisation of the built environment.