Public Sector

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The possibility of achieving energy and emissions savings in economic sectors is comprehensible, since vast amounts of energy is used in production processes, for tempering and powering buildings and the transport of passengers and goods. Energy intense economic processes always inhere a certain potential for efficiency improvements and reductions in resource use. Although the public sector does not produce goods, it provides services to citizens and has to fulfill a significant role in the progress towards a low carbon society in general. Governments have been - and still are - establishing initiatives to improve the efficiency of public services and administrative activities. Most of them are based on information technology and dematerialize processes in public or health services for example. Beside directly improving the energy efficiency of governmental institutions and services, governments have certain responsibilities to control economic and social activities concerning the sustainable use of resources. It is highly questionable, if the global goal of addressing Climate Change by stabilizing emissions could be reached without political and governmental guidelines. Therefore environmental policies have to be established, which include the definition of objectives, the provision of sufficient incentives and the monitoring of the achievement of objectives.