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McKinsey Report: Energy Efficiency is a Big Deal

The U.S. Green Building Council just sent out information from a report written by McKinsey and Company about energy efficiency and its role in U.S. mitigation of climate change. Here's what they found:

  • Energy-efficiency of buildings (along with other non-transportation efforts) could reduce U.S. energy consumption by 23% by 2020.
  • Such efforts would save $1.2 trillion and reduce emissions by 1.1 gigatons annually.
  • Getting to this point would require an annual investment of $50 billion for ten years.
In other words, the report puts numbers on what many of us knew intuitively: buildings are a really big piece of the climate puzzle. The report (in PDF download) is available here.

Published July 29, 2009

(2009, July 29). McKinsey Report: Energy Efficiency is a Big Deal. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/mckinsey-report-energy-efficiency-big-deal

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