Building a Zero Carbon Ireland Roadmap – Policy Scorecard Launch

In October 2022, the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) launched its Building a Zero Carbon Ireland Report – A Roadmap to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment across its whole life cycle.

In Ireland, construction and the built environment sector is responsible for 37% of Ireland’s carbon emission (23% operational emissions and 14% embodied carbon emissions). The roadmap, which has already been endorsed by over 170 organisations, was developed through extensive stakeholder engagement and includes a list of actions that need to be taken to halve our sector’s emissions by 2030, and to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment by 2050. The key recommendations that are highlighted in the roadmap are:

• Accelerate Ireland’s national retrofit programme
• Prioritise what needs to be built to meet citizens’ necessary housing, health, sustainable transport, economic and educational needs without overstretching Ireland’s carbonbudget
• Better use of the existing stock, including vacant and under-used properties
• Reduce the carbonintensity of new construction and renovation through better design and innovation in low carbon construction materials and processes.

Almost 18 months after the launch, the IGBC is launching a policy scorecard to track the progress against the roadmap, highlight any gaps, and showcase the areas we need to focus efforts on in the next years.

The launch of the roadmap will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives of Ireland’s main political parties to gather their feedback and reactions to the document.

This event is by invitation only and any members that are interested in attending should contact [email protected].

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