21 August 2013: A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) outlines how buildings’, the world’s largest consumers of energy, global energy consumption have doubled between 1974 and 2010, and that reforming building codes around the world would reap multiple energy and environmental benefits.

The joint report offers best practices and lessons learned on improving energy efficiency in buildings. It offers advice for concrete action on all phases of building code establishment, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. It further contains chapters on: the buildings sector at the heart of the 21st century’s energy challenges; what are building energy codes?; going beyond traditional building energy codes; challenges to effective building energy codes; and how to deliver an effective building energy code? [Press Release] [Publication: Modernizing Building Energy Codes to Secure Our Global Energy Future]