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Today, I’m proud to share the release of Building Transition: How to Scale and Finance an Inclusive Transition for the Built Environment, the newest report from BRE and our powerful global alliance of green building organizations.    Together with Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and Alliance HQE - GBC France, we’ve developed strategies to address a crucial challenge: enabling access to green finance for the 75% of buildings still left behind. Our report highlights the importance of making sustainable finance accessible for a truly inclusive transition to #netzero. #sustainablefinance #netzerotransition #climateaction #builtenvironment 

🔊"Bridging the gap between high-performing and underperforming buildings is essential to achieving our global #decarbonisation goals. This report underlines the importance of inclusive investment strategies that unlock capital for the majority of buildings, ensuring that no part of the #builtenvironment is left behind," said Jane Goddard BRE's Deputy CEO. 🌏 While high-performing buildings have access to green finance and resources, most buildings remain locked out due to a lack of capital. Our new report "Building Transition: How to Scale and Finance an Inclusive Transition for the Built Environment," focuses on the 75% of lower-performing buildings that have not yet adopted green building practices. Developed in partnership with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and Alliance HQE - GBC-GBC France, our new report offers key recommendations to address this challenge. It lays out how to attract capital to this large untapped segment, to ensure that decarbonisation takes place across the entire sector. This new report expands the conversation to ensure financing solutions are inclusive, enabling more building owners to access the funds needed to make significant improvements. Read in full here: https://lnkd.in/e73_nPK6 #netzero #zerocarbon #sustainable #netzerocarbon #climatechange

🔊"Bridging the gap between high-performing and underperforming buildings is essential to achieving our global #decarbonisation goals. This report underlines the importance of inclusive investment strategies that unlock capital for the majority of buildings, ensuring that no part of the #builtenvironment is left behind," said Jane Goddard, BRE's Deputy CEO. 🌏 While high-performing buildings have access to green finance and resources, most buildings remain locked out due to a lack of capital. BRE's new report "Building Transition: How to Scale and Finance an Inclusive Transition for the Built Environment," focuses on the 75% of lower-performing buildings that have not yet adopted green building practices. Developed in partnership with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and Alliance HQE - GBC France, our new report offers key recommendations to address this challenge. It lays out how to attract capital to this large untapped segment, to ensure that decarbonisation takes place across the entire sector. BRE's new report expands the conversation to ensure financing solutions are inclusive, enabling more building owners to access the funds needed to make significant improvements. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/erW2g2gF #netzero #zerocarbon #sustainable #netzerocarbon #climatechange

🔊"The group feels that standardising global #decarbonisation standards, with concrete standards, metrics, and decarbonisation tools that can be used globally, will help. A lack of a common approach in reporting standards makes it harder to truly understand building performance and its ability to adapt to #climate risks over time." 🌍 BRE joins coalition made up of Green Building Council of Australia, Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), U.S. Green Building Council and Alliance HQE - GBC to publish this report, "Building Transition: How to Scale and Finance an Inclusive Transition for the Built Environment," which argues most buildings are locked out of #greenfinance and resources due to a lack of capital. 📄 Focusing its research on the estimated 75% of buildings that have not adopted green practices, read more in ThisWeekinFM: https://lnkd.in/euP7zwJ9 #netzero #construction #sustainableconstruction #climatechange

🔊 How can stronger policies and taxonomies help underperforming buildings? While high-performing buildings have access to green finance and resources, the majority of existing buildings remain locked out due to a lack of capital. 📄 BRE's new report with the Green Building Council of Australia, the Singapore Green Building Council, the U.S. Green Building Council, Alliance HQE - GBC, calls for stronger policies and taxonomies to direct capital toward underperforming buildings. It advocates for context-specific, performance-oriented criteria tailored to diverse building types, ensuring investment reaches all buildings. With the built environment responsible for a significant share of global emissions, unlocking investments for the underperforming majority of buildings could help us decarbonise at scale. Read more about the opportunity for better taxonomies to transform the sustainability of the built environment: https://lnkd.in/eRSNQQqF #Greenbuild #sustainablefinance  

A very positive and powerful debate last week on how new approaches can help tackle both climate and housing crisis. Thank you to the panellists Emma Osmundsen from Ealing Council (London Borough of Ealing) , Dr Tom Dollard from Pollard Thomas Edwards and Richard Pender for sharing their thoughts, Tom Westwood from The Green Register for moderating the debate and Penny Randell from Ecological Building Systems for sponsoring the event. My main takeaway: - valuing the long term value of sustainable buildings, assessing the LCC and the benefits of upfront investment - collaboration amongst all parties and creation of partnerships sharing a common goal to deliver energy efficient buildings - Strong regulation and fundings to drive net zero and unlock the supply chain - identification of new financial models that support both the delivery and the purchase of net zero buildings - training and upskilling in sustainable construction techniques. Wates Group ##netzerocarbon #sustainabledevelopment #Passivhaus #designforperformance #closetheperformancegap #operationalcarbon #embodiedcarbon

🔊"The report highlights the large contribution that the construction industry makes to carbon emissions. For example, the UK’s #construction sector contributes a quarter of the nation’s #carbonemissions, so it is vital to #decarbonise as quickly and efficiently as possible." 📄"Building Transition: How to Scale and Finance an Inclusive Transition for the Built Environment" is a new report dealing with the financing gap between top-performing green buildings and wider #buildingstock. BRE joins a coalition of global green building organisations, including the Green Building Council of Australia, the Singapore Green Building Council, the U.S. Green Building Council and Alliance HQE - GBC (France) to publish the report. More in PBC Today & BIM Today: https://lnkd.in/evF-AjGV #netzero #zerocarbon #builtenvironment

A global coalition of green building organisations, including BRE, GBCA, SGBC, USGBC and HQE-GBC, is on a mission to unlock more finance to bring the world’s buildings up to environmental standards. Did you know that while many high-performing buildings have already accessed green financing, a huge chunk of the building market is still left out? This initiative is targeting the 75% of buildings that haven’t yet adopted sustainable practices, aiming to spread decarbonisation across the sector. By expanding access to sustainable finance, this coalition wants to help more building owners make their properties green, paving the way for low-carbon building practices to go global. To find out more, click here:

Sinéad Hughes, Director of Innovation and Programme Manager at the Irish Green Building Council, talks about enabling commercial retrofit. #RetrofittingIreland She says there is a need for the legislative context - which encompasses the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Standards - enhanced supports to enable SMEs, and outlines split incentives for owners and occupiers of buildings.

🔊"In an era where environmental #sustainability is not just a responsibility but a necessity, we fully recognise the need to drive a deeper understanding of the role of sustainable finance in addressing global challenges – most notably #climatechange," said our CEO, Gillian Charlesworth. 📄 Each of the major green building rating systems for the UK, Australia, and the USA have announced an industry-first alliance aiming to unlock #sustainable finance for the #builtenvironment. More on this alliance of #BRE, Green Building Council of Australia and U.S. Green Building Council's green building rating systems – BREEAM Official, #GreenStar and #LEED: https://lnkd.in/eKHMS2Cm #netzero #builtenvironment #construction #housing #ESG