Low Carbon Building Initiative (LCBI)

🚀 Let 2025 be an impactful year !   🌱 2024 has been a remarkable journey filled with achievements that have moved LCBI partners closer to a low-carbon future in the building sector.   💪🏼🤝 Our collective efforts have started sparking innovation, collaboration, and positive change in Europe. From new partnerships to first labelled projects…   🏢 Let us continue to build on this momentum as we move into 2025, striving for even greater sustainability and resilience in the European real estate sector.   Cécile Dap Association pour le Développement du Batiment Bas Carbone (Association BBCA) Stanislas Pottier Hélène Genin Bureau Veritas France   #lowcarbon #hny #lcbi

📰 LCBI-certified BLACK in the French medias ✨ As the 2024 year comes to an end, LCBI is happy to be featured in the French specialized media Immoweek for the very recently labelled BLACK building. Valérie GARNIER has focused on the project carbon footprint reduction - Link below. 🌳 Located in the city of Ville de Clichy-la-Garenne the BLACK Paris Clichy urban campus, designed by ECDM Architectes developed by REDMAN and AXA Investment Managers Alts, and supported by Greenaffair is actually the first building in France and the third European building to receive the LCBI label. 👉🏼 A lot more to come in 2024 and the LCBI team and members hope you will be there to keep paving the way for European real estate decarbonization. Cécile Dap Gabriel MATTOUT #lowcarbon #LCBIlabel #decarbonization

📝 Early December, the #EUCarbonRemovals and Carbon Farming Certification (CRCF) regulation was published in the Official Journal of the EU ! LCBI and Association pour le Développement du Batiment Bas Carbone (Association BBCA) have contributed to the discussion by bringing their expertise on carbon storage and bio-sourced material, and their experience on the French “Label Bas Carbone” public policy. Priority always remains to reduce carbon emissions ! However, it is also essential to consider buildings at potential carbon sinks if we want to reach carbon neutrality. This is what the CRCF now allows. This robust framework aims at: ✔️ Certifying high-quality carbon removals like carbon farming, permanent removals and long-lasting carbon storage in buildings ✔️ Rewarding companies for climate-friendly practices ✔️ Encouraging investment in activities driving carbon storage 💪🏼🌱 This regulation represents a significant step toward achieving the 2050 climate neutrality target while promoting sustainable practices and innovation ! #CRCF #carbonreduction #lowcarbon Sevim Aktas Sacha Brons Hélène Genin

Low carbon buildings: the danger of a European “lowest bidder” As the new European Commission takes office, it plans to incorporate new objectives into its directive on buildings energy performance (EPBD), and especially establishing a harmonized framework for calculating carbon emissions over the entire life cycle by the end of 2025. Cécile Dap LCBI Director, draws attention to the different ways in which carbon emissions are calculated in each EU country. 🌱 In short, the real challenge is to provide Europe with a robust, comparable, and harmonized evaluation framework to prevent greenwashing and to facilitate investments towards actual low-carbon assets. ✍️ A column by Cécile Dap, in Environnement Magazine 👉🏼 You can access the full column in the comments section. Stanislas Pottier Hélène Genin Association pour le Développement du Batiment Bas Carbone (Association BBCA) #lowcarbon #lcbicolumn #decarbonizingeurope

🌍 BLACK Paris Clichy becomes the first LCBI-certified building in France! 🏢✨ Located in the city of Ville de Clichy-la-Garenne the BLACK Paris Clichy urban campus, designed by ECDM Architectes developed by REDMAN and AXA Investment Managers Alts, and supported by Greenaffair becomes the first building in France and the third European building to receive the LCBI label. This label, supported by Association pour le Développement du Batiment Bas Carbone (Association BBCA) provides a concrete response to the challenges of uniformity of calculation methods on an international scale and promotes exemplary buildings with a low carbon footprint in Europe. BLACK Paris Clichy has established itself as an essential reference in carbon-free real estate. 🏆 What makes BLACK Paris Clichy unique : 🌱 A 50% reduction in the carbon footprint thanks to innovations such as wood-concrete slabs and an ambitious reuse policy. 🏙️ 9,000 m² of outdoor spaces, including a unique rooftop dedicated to urban agriculture, sport and relaxation. 🌍 Optimized use of resources, with hot water production provided by an urban network incorporating 30% renewable energy. ✨ An emblematic architecture with a Yakisugi wooden facade, treated using an ancestral Japanese technique, combining aesthetics and durability. By obtaining this label, BLACK Paris Clichy illustrates how architectural ambition and ecological transition can merge to meet the challenges of carbon neutrality by 2050. #Lowcarbon #decarbonizingrealestate #decarbonization #Europe #LCBI #AXAIMAlts Gabriel MATTOUT Germain Aunidas Hélène Genin Stanislas Pottier Cécile Dap

🔍 Focus on The European Commission Van der Leyen II 🇪🇺 Since September, Ursula von der Leyen has carefully been curating her 26 commissioners (one from each of the European Union’s 27 member countries; she is Germany’s commissioner). The new European Commission has been approved by European Parliament and has officially started working on December, 1st. 📝 Ursula Von der Leyen has actually set a new strategy, called « Europe’s choice », which can be interpreted as a progression to the next phase of the Green Deal. The guidelines advocate for a clear industrial strategy that fosters innovation, enhances competitiveness, and reduces dependencies, enabling Europe to advance both industrialisation and decarbonisation. 👉🏼 On top of the list is achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 (from 1990 levels), and proposing an additional interim target of a 90% reduction by 2040 through revisions to the European Climate Law. 👉🏼 LCBI objectives are aligned with those set by Ursula von der Leyen when she plans on strenghtening the European Green Deal to foster a supportive environment : the “Green Deal Industrial Plan”. ✨ Let’s see what the future European discussions hold concerning real estate decarbonisation ! #lowcarbon #europeancommission #europeanunion #UVDLII #europeangreendeal #greendeal

🤝 LCBI partners with One Click LCA.   🎊 We are happy to announce that the LCBI method for measuring carbon footprint of buildings throughout their life cycle is now part of the solutions offered by One Click LCA, the leading sustainability software platform in the industry.   ♻️ European real estate players will therefore be able to 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝, facilitating benchmarks between countries. Used in more that 170 countries, One Click LCA is an essential partner for companies that want to have a robust and precise tool for a global overview of carbon emissions. 🏢 🌱 "This is a strategic step forward real estate sector decarbonization ! By integrating a module dedicated to LCBI into their tool, One Click LCA allows ten of thousand of players to easily calculate the carbon footprint of their assets and to compare themselves to LCBI performance thresholds." rejoices Cécile Dap, LCBI Director Congrats to all team that has worked on this partnership ! Panu Pasanen Abigail Megan Mela Anna Zahrmann Lorélia le Gouvello Florent Fontaine Jeremy GOALIC Jocelyn Urvoy Kévin Thizy Matthieu Suchet Lillan Endrass Louis Janot   Stanislas Pottier Hélène Genin #lowcarbon #realestatedecarbonization #decarbonization

🫱🏼🫲🏾 Players engaged in the Low Carbon Building Initiative can only see as a good sign the gathering of varions real estate actors to tackle solutions to climate change at the Built by Nature Annual Summit in Amsterdam. ✅ As far as the LCBI is concerned, we will soon have something to announce, that represents a strategic step forward decarbonization of the real estate sector... #lowcarbon #lcbi

Virgule.lu has recently focused on 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 project in Luxembourg, which has reached the 𝐋𝐂𝐁𝐈 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 certification, at design stage. 💡 Our Director Cécile Dap has had the opportunity to explain to Pierre Pailler, article author, what BPI Real Estate, Unibra and ArtBuild Architects have set in place to reach this high level of environmental performance, acknowledged by Bureau Veritas France. #lowcarbon #lcbi #roots Stanislas Pottier Hélène Genin Arnaud Regout Frédéric vingtans Alexandra De Man-Machot Samuel Duprieu Agnès PICARD

🇪🇺 Dan Jørgensen, proposed new European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, has been approved by the European Parliament after a successful hearing.   His nomination should be confirmed by the Commissioners College during a European Parliament plenary session.    From LCBI point of view, intensely engaged in real estate decarbonation, Dan Jørgensen’s hearing was very interesting to follow : 🏡 His dual focus on energy transition and housing aligns with our understanding that these sectors are deeply interconnected with social issues and climate action. 🫱🏼🫲🏾He recognized the need for European policies that simultaneously reduce emissions and socio-economic inequalities. 🌱 He has committed to the 2040 renewable energy target, a move that LCBI welcomes and supports. 🏢 He also insisted on the need to support real estate renovation and mentioned the importance of #EPBD Implementation throughout member states, which we support.   ❌ But something was missing: He mainly focused on energy topics, without mentioning whole life decarbonation, nor embodied carbon reduction strategies. LCBI team will get in touch with the new Commissioner’s team to give them insights from the LCBI experience, and work with him on the implementation of a complete real estate decarbonation strategy.  European Commission #realestate #lowcarbon #eu #hearings #eucommission #EPhearings2024