‘Not even close to being on track’: BPIE recommendations for EPBD revision
A newly released briefing by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) shows that the buildings sector is not even close to being on track to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. It stresses the urgency to make buildings a high-level political priority and to decarbonise the building stock.
‘Not even close to being on track’: BPIE recommendations for EPBD revision
(eceee news, 8 Jul 2022) A newly released briefing by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) shows that the buildings sector is not even close to being on track to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. It stresses the urgency to make buildings a high-level political priority and to decarbonise the building stock.
The EU Building Climate Tracker shows the progress of the EU building stock towards full decarbonisation by 2050 on a 0-100 scale. It serves as a relevant benchmark and assessment tool for climate neutrality progress, starting from the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and keeps close track of the evolution of the building stock in the EU. The index monitors progress yearly and will be updated regularly.
According to the BPIE, the results shows that building decarbonisation is off track and much behind the path to climate neutrality by 2050. While the index should have been at 14 points in 2019, it is barely above 0. It is at almost the same level in 2019 as in 2015. The Tracker also indicates that building decarbonisation is far from progressing at the speed needed.
