World Green Building Council: EU Policy Whole Life Carbon Roadmap 27 2022 - 2024 CONTINUED Climate Action Roadmaps • National Climate Action Roadmaps must include milestones to ensure all buildings are net zero WLC by 2050 • Embodied carbon metrics can be based on bills of materials and measured or estimated energy consumption for relevant stages of the life cycle (eg construction, transportation and demolition) • Require Individual Climate Action Roadmaps for all buildings; these must articulate how MEPS can contribute to climate neutrality (see box on Climate Action Roadmaps) • Emission factors for operational and embodied carbon assessments should be robust and high quality, ideally based on a recognised national database Databases • EPBD requires Member States to assess and disclose information on WLC metrics for all new constructions and • Signal that Member States must develop open-source major renovation 59 databases on calculated and measured energy performance and GHG emissions of building stock to contribute to an EU- • EPBD mandates pre-demolition audits wide database or network of databases WLC • Update EPBD to facilitate a pan-European approach – based on Level(s) – for reporting operational and embodied carbon metrics: • Operational carbon metrics should be based on high-quality asset ratings and in-use verified energy consumption data, if available, or on realistic estimates 59 Major renovation, as defined by the EPBD.
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