In 2022, the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) launched Building a Zero Carbon Ireland – A Roadmap to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment across its whole life cycle.
The development of the roadmap was informed by a detailed carbon modelling report produced by the Building in a Climate Emergency (BIACE) Research Lab of UCD and by extensive stakeholder engagement. The roadmap includes recommendations for policy makers, industry, and education providers, but it’s a living document that will need to be updated on a regular basis. To support this process and ensure real progress is made, the IGBC is developing policy scorecards and industry progress reports every second year.
The objective of this first policy scorecard is to track progress against the roadmap, highlight any gaps in current government policies, and showcase the areas we need to focus efforts on in the next few years. It is hoped that it will provide useful information to government and industry as to where the opportunities lie for the years ahead.