Cultural environment as a resource in climate change mitigation and adaption
This publication covers a Nordic research group's project about the interaction between climate change and cultural environment. The participants of the project came from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark. The project was called Cultural Environment as Resource in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption (CERCMA), and it focused on the positive influence of cultural environment protection on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The project dealt with building conservation, planning of built heritage areas and management of cultural landscape.
Outcomes of the workshop and its three wrok groups included:
- Energy performance must be seen in a broader context of the sustainable management of buildings. The building policy including legislation must move towards the goal of sustainable development.
- Historic buildings must be given the credit they deserve in energy calculations, energy labelling and other analyses of how historic buildings perform.
- The economic price label does not include greenhouse gas emissions although it is obvious that it should be included.
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