ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the co-benefit framework for the building sector and derives its Avoid-Shift-Improve (A-S-I) analogues. It draws heavily on the Chinese experience of promoting co-benefits in the building sector to understand how the interplay between legislation, technology and behaviour change can generate co-benefits. The chapter also presents two cases. The first compares two projects by looking at the co-benefits of energy conservation, carbon reduction and cost saving achieved in a commercial store and within a commercial and office development in China and Japan, respectively. The second case study looks at an innovative Avoid strategy of the first city-level cap and trade system in Tokyo, part of the largest urban agglomeration in the world. The A-S-I methodology in the building sector is critical because of the strong links to both the land-use and the energy sectors. Moreover, climate change and environmental degradation are global issues and international collaboration and efforts are needed.
