Bhutan's energy and environmental situation and approaches to development are reviewed and analyzed in this paper. Conservation of natural resources and human happiness have been placed as central strategic policy themes and have been given high priority in the national development plans of...

Since the establishment of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) there has been on-going discussion about its potential and actual effectiveness in assisting in reductions in global...

During the past few decades, a large number of ground-coupled heat pump (GCHP) systems have been widely applied in various buildings around the world due to the attractive advantages of high efficiency and environmental friendliness. However, most buildings in warm-climate or cold-climate areas...