Report: Huge untapped potential for energy efficiency in commercial buildings

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Policy needs to be simpler and consistently enforced to ensure carbon reductions, industry paper finds

Policies to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from commercial property need to be better understood, monitored, and enforced, an industry report will warn today. The paper, produced by Deloitte for the...

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