BACKGROUND WORLDGBC ON WHOLE LIFE CARBON WorldGBC Europe has been calling on European policymakers to address the WLC impact of buildings for a number of years. WorldGBC Europe’s responses to EU policy consultations on this topic have consistently called for the introduction of WLC, citing this as a crucial first step towards the establishment of benchmarks and targets. 35 leading construction industry bodies from across the value chain, as well as from Member of European Parliament Ciaran Cuffe, who has served as the Rapporteur for the 2022 revision of the EPBD. In 2022 WorldGBC released an EU Policy Whole Life Carbon Roadmap 1 , which set out a series of policy recommendations for the total decarbonisation of Europe’s buildings by 2050, including recommendations around the introduction of WLC reporting and target setting. The Roadmap received endorsements from over Additionally, publications produced by WorldGBC on this topic have included the Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront report in 2018 - a landmark report which set out a bold vision towards net zero embodied carbon 2 . 1 EU Policy Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, WorldGBC, 2022 2 Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront report, WorldGBC, 2018 May 2022 Bringing embodied carbon upfront Coordinated action for the building and construction sector to tackle embodied carbon EU POLICY WHOLE LIFE CARBON ROADMAP #BUILDINGLIFE 6 POLICY BRIEFING: WHOLE LIFE CARBON REPORTING AND TARGETS
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