ARTICLE · 22 NOVEMBER 2024
COP29 Update – Decarbonising The Built Environment: The Challenges And Opportunities
The UK Government's COP29 pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 81% by 2035 highlights the need to decarbonize the built environment, responsible for significant emissions. Key strategies include expanding Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES), green leases, sustainable building certifications, and climate finance integration.
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Summary
The decarbonisation of the built environment is likely to be on
the UK Government's agenda as it looks to make good on its
commitment at COP29 to cut carbon emissions by 81% from 1990s level
by 2035. How will this be achieved? Will Minimum Energy Efficiency
Standards play a part, will we see more green leases or more
building accreditations and is the UN's Building Breakthrough
initiative beginning to make a substantive difference?
Sir Keir Starmer's pledge at COP29 to cut carbon emissions
by 81% from 1990s levels by 2035, in line with the Climate Change
Committee's recommendations, will have focused minds inside
Government as to how it achieves its green agenda. The Government
is likely to focus on approaches such as decarbonising the power
sector, expanding offshore wind and investing in carbon capture and
storage projects.
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