Key challenges of climate change adaptation in the building sector

Živa KRISTL,Coline SENIOR,Alenka TEMELJOTOV SALAJ

doi:10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2020-31-01-004

Abstract

Key challenges of climate change adaptation in the building sector

Highlights

Various forecasts suggest that the price of insisting on an existing pattern of performance will be much higher than a timely and su ciently comprehensive response. e Stern Review (Stern, 2007) suggested that the overall costs and risks of climate change would be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global annual GDP. e current forecasts have not considerably changed
The most important climate change mitigation measure is increased energy e ciency of the existing building stock. e economic assessments of energy retro tting measures are traditionally based on the investment rate and the reduction of energy costs
E information presented above shows that climate change mitigation will probably result in lower energy consumption, overall greater savings, and a change in established consumer preferences (IPCC, 2014). e changes will a ect the amount of income that users or individual households spend for building heating and cooling

Summary

Introduction

Various forecasts suggest that the price of insisting on an existing pattern of performance will be much higher than a timely and su ciently comprehensive response. e Stern Review (Stern, 2007) suggested that the overall costs and risks of climate change would be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global annual GDP. e current forecasts have not considerably changed. When the search advanced by using the selected keyword combinations, it was more di cult to nd an appropriate number of articles with high relevance, especially in the elds of climate resilience/energy and climate adaptation/building. E selected articles were discussed from the perspective of three approaches to climate change adaptation: governance measures, urban areas, and buildings.

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