As we emerge from the months of personal physical isolation to the gradual process of regaining productivity at work, we are likely to face numerous challenges in securing a workspace with reduced risks of infection. This presentation seeked to highlight the technical challenges and contradictions, with energy implications, in making our buildings and factories safe and comfortable.

This presentation provided a brief introduction to the work of the Wuppertal Institute, as well as an overview of green building development in the People's Republic of China. This includes the market growth and environmental impacts of the PRC's building sector, green building policy framework, and green building market. It also examined the investment gaps for green and energy-efficient buildings, drivers for private investment through green financing, and financing innovations for green building and energy efficiency.

This presentation discussed the International Finance Corporations' four-part strategy to support greater investment in green buildings, as well as its Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) Certification Program. It also highlighted the IFC's work with governments to implement upstream incentives to promote green building growth.

This presentation discussed the United Kingdom's international climate finance efforts, highlighting its Market Accelerator for Green Construction program in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The program provides technical assistance and concessional finance to drive financing and construction of more energy-efficient green buildings.

This presentation discussed the market trends in energy efficiency, especially in the building sector, the international standard for green buildings, and the various energy efficiency solutions covered by ABB. It also presented specific case studies that build a strong case for smart green building automation to achieve both operational and energy efficiency.

This presentation outlined Greensmith Energy's core business and experience in providing various energy storage solutions such as energy storage technology, integration, and software, which are integrated with solar, wind, fossil, and hydro energy generation.

This presentation gave an overview of Multi Energy Systems (MES) and how Adenergy is responding to changing customer demands through various integrated solutions, such as on-site energy generation, energy storage, electronic vehicle charging, energy trading, and utility optimization and maintenance.

This presentation discussed the new public-private partnership on Urban System Integration which seeks to support cities in developing integrated approaches to infrastructure planning and cross-sectoral policies and identifying key enabling technologies that will facilitate connections and interactions across the building, energy, transportation, wastewater treatment, and waste management sectors. It also discussed the wider systems integration in district energy, use of waste heat and large scale resources, improving city-wide energy efficiency, and district cooling.