Buildings Initiatives
The Breakthrough Agenda landscape maps offer an in-depth analysis of each initiative, how it interacts with a corresponding Breakthrough, and what actions it is taking to progress sectoral transitions. These initiatives for Buildings include:
- 2030 Breakthroughs: Built Environment Outcome
- Advancing Net Zero/ANZ (WorldGBC)
- Building Capacity for Sustainable and Resilient Buildings (ICC)
- Building Net Zero: Mobilising Policy Action (GBPN)
- BuildingLife (WorldGBC)
- Built by Nature Fund (BuiltbyNature)
- Built Environment Pathway (WBCSD)
- Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor/CRREM (Institute for Real Estate Economics/IIÖ)
- CEM-Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative / IDDI (UNIDO)
- CEM-Mission Innovation
- GBPN Network (GBPN)
- Global Building Data Initiative/GBDI (GLOBE)
- Global repository of Efficient Solutions in the Built Environment sector
(Solar Impulse Foundation) - Healthy Buildings Healthy Lives (GBPN)
- Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
- Market Transformation Action Agenda (WCBSD)
- Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment (WorldGBC)
- Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings/PEEB (AFD/GIZ)
- Programme on Decarbonising Buildings in Cities and Regions (OECD)*
- Race to Resilience
- Race to Zero
- Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda
- Sustainable Finance (WorldGBC)
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WBCSD Built Environment Pathway
Decarbonizing the built environment is key to attaining global climate goals as it represents 40% of total energy-related CO2 emissions and 40% of global resource use. WBCSD works with its member companies to help them collaborate along the full value chain to achieve their own climate targets and support decarbonization across the built environment lifecycle (material production, construction, operation, end of life) by 2050. WBCSD and its members also collectively develop definitions and measurement of what it means for the built environment to become circular, nature-positive and more equitable. Through the Market Transformation Action Agenda, WBCSD works with many stakeholders and partners in the built environment to overcome the fragmentation and provide a shared direction to drive the collective transformation.
Knowledge capability & skills
Long-term vision & action plans
Standards & certification
The Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB)
The Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) aims to transform the building sector by promoting sustainable building design and construction. PEEB combines financing for energy efficiency in large-scale projects with technical assistance through policy advice. PEEB mobilizes innovative financing solutions for large building projects, such as hospitals or schools, but also large national green building programmes. The programme supports its partner countries to make policies, standards and NDCs more ambitious and effective to channel investments towards green buildings. Capacity-building for professionals and decision-makers in the buildings sector prepares the ground for investments.
Demand creation & management
Finance & investment
Knowledge capability & skills
Market structures
Sustainable Finance
WorldGBC’s with the support of 28 Green Building Councils is dedicated to unlocking impactful finance flows into the transition towards a sustainable built environment.
Finance & investment
Landscape co-ordination
Standards & certification
Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda
Launched at COP27, the Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SSAA) is a comprehensive, shared agenda to rally global action around 30 adaptation outcomes that are needed to address the adaptation gap and achieve a resilient world by 2030. The agenda is a vehicle to rally both state and non-state actors. An implementation report is due to be launched at COP28.
The agenda is outcome-focussed, people-focussed and is framed around five key systems, one of which is ‘Human Settlements’. The five Human Settlement objectives include, providing better homes, early warning systems, finance for nature-based solutions and reducing open-waste burning.
The outcomes align stakeholders behind simple, common goals. The outcomes provide a framing to shift leaders beyond discussions about direction, towards action and implementation.
Long-term vision & action plans
Race to Zero
Race to Zero is a global campaign rallying 13,000+ non-state actors to take rigorous and immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030. These organisations commit and take action towards cutting emissions across their scopes 1, 2 and 3.
As of October 2023, this included 20% of major real estate asset managers and owners. Their commitment to cut emissions across scopes 1, 2 and 3 includes the embodied and operational emissions of the $1.4T AuM thereby driving demand for low-carbon buildings.
The Race To Zero campaign provides businesses with a credible UN-backed net zero commitment, a platform for connecting leaders towards driving change, and capacity building support to aid implementation.
Demand creation & management
Race to Resilience
The Race to Resilience campaign aims to catalyse a step-change in global ambition for climate resilience, aiming to strengthen the resilience of 4 billion people in vulnerable communities by the year 2030. The Campaign was launched by the UN Climate Action High-level Champions in January 2021 at the Climate Adaptation Summit, alongside the State-driven Adaptation Action Coalition.
Long-term vision & action plans
Paris Aligned Asset Owners
Paris Aligned Asset Owners are a global group of 56 asset owners, with over $3.3 trillion in assets. Consistent with their fiduciary obligations to clients and beneficiaries to avoid financial risk and to maximize long-term value of assets they have made individual commitments to transition their investments to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050, or sooner, drawing on the Net Zero Investment Framework to deliver these commitments.
Finance & investment
Long-term vision & action plans
OECD Programme on Decarbonising Buildings in Cities and Regions
The OECD Programme Decarbonising Buildings in Cities and Regions supports local, regional and national governments to design policies that enhance the implementation of decarbonisation measures in the built environment through:
Data and analysis: collecting quantitative and qualitative data on decarbonising buildings (energy efficiency, embodied carbon), building digitalisation (BIM, smart buildings) and related policy environments in order to conducts in-depth analysis;
Self-assessment: developing self-assessment tools to help policy makers to design appropriate policies and identify opportunities and barriers in implementation;
Country-specific and city-specific case studies: providing peer-learning opportunities and targeted policy recommendations to support local and national efforts to develop place-based building decarbonisation policies.
Knowledge capability & skills
Long-term vision & action plans
Standards & certification
Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment
The Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment is an industry leading climate initiative, developed to recognise and promote advanced climate action from businesses, organisations, cities and subnational governments in decarbonising the built environment. Commitment signatories are showcasing industry leadership by decarbonising their own portfolios, tackling both operational and embodied carbon, creating the required market demand signals, removing barriers to implementation and ultimately accelerating the transition to net zero across the building and construction sector.
Knowledge capability & skills
Landscape co-ordination
Long-term vision & action plans
Net Zero Asset Managers
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative is an international group of asset managers committed, consistent with their fiduciary duty to their clients and beneficiaries, to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius; and to supporting investing aligned with net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner.
Finance & investment
