U.S.-China Sustainable Buildings PartnershipThe US-China Sustainable Buildings Partnership (SBP) promotes demand-side energy efficiency in China’s building sector. It is accomplishing this by providing policymakers and the marketplace with tools and frameworks to drive large scale action. The work of the SBP is intended to complement a growing body of minimum regulatory standards for building energy use, and a newly evolving voluntary green building certification program in China. The SBP is focused on working with policymakers and market to increase participation in these existing initiatives, and on demonstrating new “reach” strategies for promoting higher levels of exemplary energy performance through voluntary approaches. Voluntary, market-based approaches represent a new and as-yet-underutilized strategy for achieving large scale reductions in energy use in Chinese buildings. FURTHER READING
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