Session Description
The Buildings Breakthrough (BB), coordinated by the GlobalABC and operating under the Breakthrough Agenda, is a collaboration framework driving key international actions, supported by global organisations and their initiatives, to create an enabling environment for national policies on building decarbonisation and climate resilience. Its goal is to make near-zero emission and resilient buildings (NZERBs) the new normal by 2030.
This session, organised by the UNEP hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), will convene frontrunner countries and partners to collaboratively identify implementation challenges and co-develop actionable pathways up to the next Global Stocktake, and provide recommendations to refine and operationalise the Plan to Accelerate NZERBs.
Headline:
Collaboration across the built environment is key to achieving Near-Zero Emission and Resilient Buildings (NZERBs); this workshop will showcase current progress toward the sector’s 2030 ambition, address key systemic barriers, and contribute to a coordinated 2028 action plan focused on priority areas for systemic change.
Target audience
National and local authorities, international organisations, industry leaders, financiers, civil society groups, and philanthropic partners.
Agenda
| Item | Presenters | Timing |
1. Welcome Welcome & Introduction | Diane Holdorf, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
| 5 mins |
| 2. Framing Remarks Reference to real-world national actions/spotlight a few emerging national policies demonstrating tangible progress, illustrating how the BB is already catalysing measurable change. | Kennedy Matheka, Kenya
| 5 mins |
3. PAS Overview Presentation of NZERB PAS scope, maturity of pressing levers, barriers, targeted outcomes; key initiatives to speak to concrete actions they are leading within the plan, inviting countries to endorse and implement them; presentation of additional short & medium term actions including through Party and non-party stakeholder collaboration to advance the PAS. | Yves-Laurent Sapoval, France Audrey Nugent, WorldGBC One Planet Network (TBC) Joscha Rosenbusch, PEEB (TBC) Edel Guenther, UNU-FLORES Solar Impulse Foundation (TBC) Ryan Colker, ICC | 24 mins |
4. Open Forum Exchange of perspectives on actions and commitments, exploring synergies between national policy implementation and international cooperation, with reaction and inputs on new actions from national government representatives, financial institutions, private sector and industry organisations, local governments and philanthropy. | Diane Holdorf, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Country Representatives (TBC)
| 24 mins |
5. Closing Summary and next steps Summary of key interventions and messages, inviting continued collaboration between Party and Non-Party stakeholders to act and commit to actions, and accelerate delivery under the PAS toward COP31. | Diane Holdorf, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) | 2 mins |
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