A Pathway to Climate Neutral Buildings: Definitions, Policy and Stakeholder Understanding in Sweden and China

Abstract In recent years, ‘climate neutral buildings’ has become one of the most popular emerging terms in context global warming and built environment. However, due to a vague definition, term still lacks real-world uptake practice. While initial research focuses on buildings’, few have discussed this from perspective different countries or stakeholders. To address gap, paper explores current understanding future development Sweden China. Through literature review related definitions, an investigation regulations, stakeholder interviews both countries, we find that China are stages towards climate buildings. seems surpass theoretical research, regulation understanding. Despite this, two share similar issues regarding Both lack official interpretation sufficient collaborations among This suggests foundation for