A newly released roadmap document outlines a strategy for integrating renewable energy technologies into buildings in China’s Changjiang River (CJR) basin.  The region covers an area of 1.8 million km² with a population of over 500 million. It includes China's major industrial centres and generates 40% of the country's GDP. The region is also growing quickly, with 500 million m2 of new construction added each year.

Peter Traupmann, Managing Director of the Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) kicked off a two-and half hour event on Renewable Energy Policy and Market Development Worldwide, held at the Vienna International Centre on 22 March.  Co-hosted together with REN21 and REEEP, the event highlighted a cross-section of issues relating to the wide-scale deployment of renewables.