Achieving a More Sustainable and Fair Society: How Individual and Collective Action Shape the Energy Efficiency of Buildings
| Autor | Teresa Parejo-Navajas |
| Cargo | Associate Professor of Law at Carlos III University (Madrid) and Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Affiliate (Columbia University) |
| Páginas | 234-248 |
Achieving a more Sustainable and
Fair Society: How Individual and Collective
Action Shape the Energy Eciency
of Buildings
Conseguindo uma Sociedade mais Sustentável e Justa:
Como a Ação Individual e Coletiva Molda a Eciência
Energética dos Edifíci os
Teresa Parejo-Navajas*
Carlos III University, Getafe-Madrid, Spain
1. Introduction
According to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio
de Janeiro in 2012, the States have the responsibility “to respect, protect,
and promote human rights”1. This important task is essential for achieving
the three dimensions of the sustainable development (economic, social and
environmental) of any society, and which in cities, given all the challenges
they are already facing (and that will eventually be worsened), will need
to include the necessary actions to “make cities and human settlements
inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” (goal 11 of the UN Sustainable
Development Goals)2.
The energy consumption in buildings is on the rise a nd represents
almost half of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in cities, which are
the main cause of global warming on the planet. Indeed, the stock of ex-
* Associate Professor of Law at Carlos III University (Madrid) and Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Affiliate (Columbia University). E-mail: teresa.parejo@uc3m.es.
1 See the conference here: g/index.php?menu=242> (section 9). For more informa-
tion, see: KNOX, 2015, p. 517.
2 Available here: .un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/>, accessed 4th January, 2017.
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