The building efficiency revolution emerges now from the inter-related confluence of the collapsed cost of microprocessors, enabling embedded intelligence in offerings as simple as light bulbs (soon), as well as the development of standards and interfaces for the formerly "dumb" hardware, and the ubiquity of the Internet.
By giving us new tools for verification, enabling us to tap a global network for intelligence and information, and strengthening our own law enforcement, the treaty will make it easier for us to prevent to punish those who seek to violate its rules.