One of our keynote speakers at the 8th International Conference on Energy and Environment of Residential Buildings, Professor Diana Ürge-Vorsatz was interviewed on Radio NZ during her flying visit to NZ.
Professor Ürge-Vorsatz is the director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy at the Central European University in Budapest. She is also Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and contributed to the recently released IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
She spoke to Wallace Chapman on his Sunday Morning show about how buildings, both residential and commercial, contribute to climate change through their carbon emissions which are generated through electricity use. She explained how to turn this around through deep retro-fitting. Listen to Diana’s interview.