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Retrofit for purpose - upgrading to efficient building stock

Illustration of a smart cityscape with buildings, trees, vehicles, and tech icons linked by dotted lines. Icons show CO2 emissions, renewable energy, transport efficiency, and construction metrics. A yellow crane stands prominently.

Buildings’ operations account for 30% of global final energy consumption and 26% of global energy-related emissions, making them a prime target for decarbonization through retrofit. Yet progress in reducing emissions to date is not enough, and worse still, slowing.

- A lack of available capital means a substantial number of buildings owners are missing out on the deliverable operational cost reductions, carbon emission reductions and supply security that can be gained.

- Nevertheless, arrangements known as energy-efficiency-as-a-service are increasingly enabling investment in retrofit technologies without putting pressure on capital resources.

- To quantify the potential impact of these schemes, this insight study estimates the baseline annual emissions reduction that energy-efficiency-as-a-service arrangements could enable between now and the end of the decade in four key areas of the world – North America, Europe, India and China.

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