Mainstreaming Building Energy Efficiency Codes in Developing Countries World Bank Working Paper No. 204

Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a large increase in demand for modern energy services in residential, commercial, and public service buildings in the next two decades.  Pursuing energy efficiency in buildings is vital to energy security in developing countries and is identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as having the greatest potential for cost effective reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030 among all energy consuming sectors. 

This is the Forward and Executive Summary of this World Bank Working Paper No. 204