Yet another report on buildings and energy

This time from UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme. This one reiterates that the buildings in the world consume some 30-40% of the global energy and that they can be improved substantially. So when it comes to the overall facts there is little to surprise. But this one addresses a lot of people with the message that, what the call "passive" measures (saving that is), should be subject to technology-transfer instruments such as the CDM in the Kyoto-mechanisms. Active measures (energy supply that is) are already eligible for CDM.

But even if the message and the overall facts do not surprise the details in the argumentation is very impressive and useful and substantiated with very creative graphs. As this one that shows that economic activity has moved east.