ABOUT #BuildingLife is a project convening 12 European Green Building Councils (GBCs) working to deliver on the European Green Deal. The Green Building Councils are supporting climate action through national and regional decarbonisation roadmaps, which tackle the whole–life environmental impacts of the building and construction sector. # BuildingLife focuses not only on the operational emissions of buildings, but also the environmental impact of the manufacturing, transportation, construction, and end–of–life phases – often called embodied emissions. Tackling these emissions is essential to address the total impact of the built environment, and progress towards the European Green Deal’s aim of a climate neutral Europe by 2050. #BuildingLife has helped leverage almost €60 million in national and European Union (EU) funds to drive innovations that will reduce whole-life carbon. The project is creating a pathway for other world regions to follow through a roadmap demonstrating how European Union (EU) buildings policy can adopt whole life carbon targets. The Green Building Councils spearheading the project are: Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK. # BuildingLife is funded by grants from IKEA Foundation, Laudes Foundation, European Climate Foundation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Please note that the data held within this report was captured in 2022, when the first phase of the project concluded. 3
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