Buildings
Retrofitting homes and decarbonisation of the energy system are needed to reduce emissions from the housing sector and improve health.
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Retrofitting existing houses with improved insulation can reduce cold exposure in temperate climates, but these actions need to avoid reducing ventilation which can increase household air pollution. The combination of insulation with efficient ventilation can bring substantial benefits for both health and greenhouse gas emissions.
In the Pathfinder umbrella review, actions that involved improving energy use in buildings included home retrofitting and behaviour change and showed smaller mitigation intensities compared with other actions involving energy, but these could still be substantial if implemented at scale.
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Data from the Umbrella Review
Climate and human health impacts of mitigation action in the Buildings sector. There were 5 included mitigation actions from 4 different countries.
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