Traditional methods of evaluating energy performance of building tend to focus on comparing the observed energy consumption with the average value of energy consumption by regression method or theoretical value calculated by simulation analysis. For evaluating and ranking the energy performance...

This paper argues that the current deadlock in international climate negotiations stems from a fundamental flaw in the design of the Kyoto protocol and its proposed successors, which could be resolved through a different design. Specifically, rather than setting limits on the emissions produced...