26 World Green Building Council: EU Policy Whole Life Carbon Roadmap TIMELINE OF RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION 2022 - 2024 A clear vision • Establish a clear vision of how building stock will help meet EU climate goals, set out its contribution to carbon emissions and reduction targets for 2030 and 2040, and align with trajectory for net zero WLC by 2050 • Clarify the methodology for calculating carbon storage and facilitate discussions to gain consensus on its role in decarbonisation • Provide a timeline to clarify how ZEBs, as defined in the recast EPBD, will evolve to cover net zero WLC • Outline a long-term vision for how the EPBD will boost and MEPS sustain building renovation, mandate staged disclosure of buildings’ embodied carbon and operational emissions (WLC), • Outline mandatory MEPS and a timeline for their achievement and integrate circularity in line with net zero emissions by 2050 • Provide guidance on how WLC limit values for buildings align with the decarbonisation trajectory up to 2050 and establish provisions for revising policies if necessary • Clarify how measures will complement the transition to a net zero WLC building stock to ensure it is resilient to climate change impacts and can meet future needs Guidance • Specify how the Level(s) framework will provide common principles from which to develop relevant measures and harmonise calculation, reporting, benchmarking and limits to WLC under EN 15978 • Ask Member States to develop National Climate Action Roadmaps by 2024 in line with EU climate objectives, going beyond long-term renovation strategies and covering all buildings EPCs • Indicate a clear process for updating EPCs to help harmonise and validate performance to increase reliability and improve asset rating calculation with measured building performance. Mandate that: (1) final energy demand, primary energy demand and WLC in EPCs are reported and (2) that EPC databases must report calculated and measured energy performance 2022 - 2024
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