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The article discusses the delivery of expertise, data, and model development to African countries to achieve electrification, development and climate goals on the continent in 2023. It states that appropriate energy system models are needed for planning on future energy demand and supply trajectories to advance socioeconomic development amid global decarbonization. Also noted are possible investment-outcome and resource-demand mismatches if there are deficiencies in modeling and data.

Small buildings, meanwhile, make up the vast majority of buildings in the city by number, and altogether account for the other half of total building emissions. Architecture 2030's ZERO Code, a national and international commercial building energy standard for new building design and construction, integrates cost-effective energy efficiency standards with on-site and off-site renewable energy, resulting in zero-net-carbon buildings. The embodied carbon of materials for the structures, enclosures, and construction of buildings represents 11% of total annual global greenhouse gas emissions. [Extracted from the article]