Figure 9.15 | Potential GHG emission reduction in buildings of different world countries grouped by region, as reported by sixty-seven bottom-up studies. Sources: North America: Canada (Trottier 2016; Radpour et al. 2017; Subramanyam et al. 2017a,b; Zhang et al. 2020a), the Unites States of America (Gagnon et al. 2016; Nadel 2016; Yeh et al. 2016; Wilson et al. 2017; Zhang et al. 2020a); Europe: Albania (Novikova et al. 2020, 2018c), Austria (Ploss et al. 2017), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary (Csoknyai et al. 2016), France (Ostermeyer et al. 2018b), the European Union (Duscha et al. 2019; Roscini et al. 2020; Brugger et al. 2021), Germany (Markewitz et al. 2015; Bürger et al. 2019; Ostermeyer et al. 2019b), Greece (Mirasgedis et al. 2017), Italy (Calise et al. 2021; Filippi Oberegger et al. 2020), Lithuania (Toleikyte et al. 2018), Montenegro (Novikova et al. 2018c), Netherlands (Ostermeyer et al. 2018c), Norway (Sandberg et al. 2021), Serbia (Novikova et al. 2018a), Switzerland (Iten et al. 2017; Streicher et al. 2017), Poland (Ostermeyer et al. 2019a), the United Kingdom (Ostermeyer et al. 2018a); Eurasia: Armenia, Georgia (Timilsina et al. 2016); the Russian Federation (Bashmakov 2017; Zhang et al. 2020a); Australia (Energetics 2016; Butler et al. 2020; Zhang et al. 2020a), Japan (Momonoki et al. 2017; Wakiyama and Kuramochi 2017; Minami et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2020a; Sugyiama et al. 2020); Africa: Egypt (Makumbe et al. 2017; Calise et al. 2021), Morocco (Merini et al. 2020), Nigeria (Dioha et al. 2019; Kwag et al. 2019; Onyenokporo and Ochedi 2019), Rwanda (Colenbrander et al. 2019), South Africa (Department of Environmental Affairs 2014), Uganda (de la Rue du Can et al. 2018), Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia (Krarti -2019); Middle East – Qatar (Krarti et al. 2017; Kamal et al. 2019), Saudi Arabia (Alaidroos and Krarti 2015; Khan et al. 2017), Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen (Krarti 2019); Eastern Asia – China (Tan et al. 2018; Zhou et al. 2018; Xing et al. 2021; Zhang et al. 2020); Southern Asia: India (Yu et al. 2018; de la Rue du Can et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2020); South-East Asia and Pacific: Indonesia (Kusumadewi and Limmeechokchai 2015, 2017), Thailand (Kusumadewi and Limmeechokchai 2015, 2017; Chaichaloempreecha et al. 2017), Vietnam (ADB 2017), respective countries from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (Zhang et al. 2020a); Latin America and Caribbean: Brazil (de Melo and de Martino Jannuzzi 2015; González-Mahecha et al. 2019), Colombia (Prada-Hernández et al. 2015), Mexico (Grande-acosta and Islas-samperio 2020; Rosas-Flores and Rosas-Flores 2020).