COP27 #BuildingsPavilion

Place: #BuildingsPavilion Auditorium (lot. n°113)

Date: 8 November 2022

Time: 14:30-15:30 Eastern European Time

Lead organisation(s): Danish Energy Agency

Partners: BUILD Aalborg University, VELUX

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Description

Buildings are responsible for 36% of the global CO2 emissions and need to be reduced by 50% before 2030 if we want to meet the Paris agreement. Therefore, Nearly Zero Carbon buildings must become standard before 2030 and this is best done through regulations. More countries have already set requirements to maximum CO2 emissions from new buildings and the European Commission has suggested that all European countries set requirements to maximum emissions from buildings.

The session will discuss how carbon requirement to new build has been developed (by research) and how to implement them into building legislation (by CO2 requirements) as done in Denmark and other countries. The session will also discuss how the industry needs to declare the carbon content of products and solutions (Environmental Product Declarations) as well as how designers and architects use life cycle perspective and LCA calculations to guide investors in their decision process.

Speakers

• Intro by Kurt Emil Eriksen VELUX A/S 
• Harpa Birgisdottir, Professor on Sustainability of Buildings at BUILD at Aalborg University Denmark 
• Elizabeth Wangeci Chege, Sustainable Energy for All and World Green Building Council
• Jo da Silva, Global Director of Sustainable Development, Arup
• Lone Feifer, Living Places – a new way of thinking about buildings, Partnership between EFFEKT, MOE and VELUX

Panel session moderated by Kurt Emil Eriksen VELUX A/S