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Advances Toward a Net-Zero Global Building Sector
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The building sector is responsible for 39% of process-related greenhouse gas emissions globally, making net- or nearly-zero energy buildings pivotal for reaching climate neutrality. This article reviews recent advances in key options and strategies for converting the building sector to be climate neutral. The evidence from the literature shows it is possible to achieve net- or nearly-zero energy building outcomes across the world in most building types and climates with systems, technologies, and skills that already exist, and at costs that are in the range of conventional buildings. Maximizing energy efficiency for all building energy uses is found as central to net-zero targets. Jurisdictions all over the world, including Brussels, New York, Vancouver, and Tyrol, have innovated visionary policies to catalyze themarket success of such buildings, with more than 7 million square meters of nearly-zero energy buildings erected in China alone in the past few years. Since embodied carbon in building materials can consume up to a half of the remaining 1.5°C carbon budget, this article reviews recent advances to minimize embodied energy and store carbon in building materials.
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- Authors
- Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Khosla, R., Bernhardt, R., Chan, Y. C., Vérez, D., Hu, S., & Cabeza, L. F.
- Affiliations
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University (CEU), 1051 Budapest, Hungary;
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Passive House Canada, Victoria, British Columbia V9A 3S1, Canada;
- Delta Electronics Foundation (TW)
- Universitat de Lleida (ES)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Environment and Resources
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2020-10-17
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 227-269
- ISSN
- 1543-5938 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2050
- OpenAlex
- W3082341199
- Semantic Scholar
- 247f27148efb3ec0fec2a593c574650338c4666d
- Cited by
- 250
- References
- 146
- Citations by year
- 2026: 56 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 2.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Open Research (Auckland University of Technology) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
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- Open Research (Auckland University of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Building energy efficiency and sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Keywords
- zero energy buildings, nearly zero energy buildings, climate neutrality, building energy efficiency, embodied carbon, building energy policy, low-carbon construction
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