Overcoming barriers to implementation of carbon reduction strategies in large commercial buildings in China

Applicability of clean development mechanism to the Hong Kong building sector

“…Previous researchers such as Singh and Michaelowa (2004);Niederberger (2008); Jiang and Tovey (2010) and Ntuli et al (2011) attributed the belated weak development of CDM in building energy efficient projects to the barriers which can be categorised into two types: building-related barriers and CDM-specific barriers. The former type of barriers is due to the characteristics of the building sector and the latter is attributed to the CDM arrangement.…”

“…Respondents were requested to rank the relative importance of a number of potential barriers (adapted from Singh and Michaelowa, 2004;Niederberger, 2008;UNEP, 2008;Jiang and Tovey, 2010;Ntuli et al, 2011 andMok et al, 2014) to the implementation of emissions trading schemes in Hong Kong. They were divided into two categories.…”

What leads to low-carbon buildings? A China study

“…Higher property prices could affect the future of low-carbon buildings [69,70]. However, energy cost savings can effectively offset the extra cost of low carbon building developments.…”

Analysis on the carbon trading approach in promoting sustainable buildings in China

“…The overall contributions of energy saving and carbon reduction can be made not only by employing technologies, but also from transferring and sharing knowledge and information such as the improvement of effective energy management and behaviour changes. In current CDM technology based method, the GHG emissions reduction from nontechnical measures is overlooked [29].…”