WRI releases new cities report on building efficiency

WRI (World Resources Institute) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities has launched a new report, Accelerating Building Efficiency: Eight Actions for Urban Leaders, which finds building efficiency is the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions in cities and urban leaders are the critical actors to unlock this change.

“Building efficiency has often been an overlooked strategy because it requires a rethinking of business as usual away from thinking about single building transactions toward considering the whole lifecycle of a building and all the different actors involved,” Eric Mackres, Manager, Building Efficiency Initiative, and co-author of the report, told Cities Today. “Rather than thin...