6 Director of Dental Public Health, Population Health &Care Division, Health and Wellbeing Directorate, Public Health England, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH.5 (Formerly Research Associate, King's College London Dental Institute, Population and Patient Health) Senior Lecturer in Dental Public Health, University of Portsmouth Dental Academy, William Beatty Building, Hampshire Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 2QG.4 Clinical Fellow in leadership, Health Education England, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN.3 Specialist trainee in Oral Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Clarendon Way, Leeds, LS2 9LU.2 Consultant, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Diabetes and Endocrinology, 1st Floor Mint Wing, St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, W2 1NY.1 Professor in Periodontology, Head of Periodontology, Eastman Dental Institute, 256 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8LD.WorldGBC engaged with over 200 stakeholders throughout the process to produce the report and at the time of release received endorsement from more than 80 organisations from across the entire building and construction value chain including developers and construction companies, financial institutions, city networks and government, as well as industry representatives from concrete, steel and timber and many more. The report is critical to create a conversation around the value and importance of embodied carbon, with the aim of creating and stimulating market demand for transparency, improvements, and verification of embodied carbon reductions. By 2050, new buildings, infrastructure and renovations will have net zero embodied carbon, and all buildings, including existing buildings must be net zero operational carbon.By 2030, all new buildings, infrastructure and renovations will have at least 40% less embodied carbon with significant upfront carbon reduction, and all new buildings are net zero operational carbon.In “Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront: Coordinated action for the building and construction sector to tackle embodied carbon”, WorldGBC has issued a bold new vision that: Therefore the built environment sector has a vital role to play in responding to the climate emergency, and addressing upfront carbon is a critical and urgent focus. Carbon emissions released before the built asset is used, what is referred to as ‘upfront carbon’, will be responsible for half of the entire carbon footprint of new construction between now and 2050, threatening to consume a large part of our remaining carbon budget. Towards the middle of the century, as the world’s population approaches 10 billion, the global building stock is expected to double in size. Through the Advancing Net Zero project, and in partnership with European Climate Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, C40 Cities and Ramboll, WorldGBC has developed this ‘call to action’ report focusing on these emissions, as part of a whole lifecycle approach, and the systemic changes needed to achieve full decarbonisation across the global buildings sector.īuildings are currently responsible for 39% of global energy related carbon emissions: 28% from operational emissions, from energy needed to heat, cool and power them, and the remaining 11% from materials and construction.
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