The climate action plans (NDCs) we make in 2025 will shape policies and economies for the next decade. By being bold on buildings, countries can attract investment, create new green jobs, improve energy security, lower people’s energy bills, and scale climate action to meet climate targets.
Our ‘NDC Scorecard for Sustainable Buildings’ supports countries to evaluate and strengthen their national-level plans and policies. It’s time to #BeBoldOnBuildings.
The NDC Scorecard is a free digital tool that helps governments and key stakeholders to:
The Scorecard includes the following policy categories:
In addition, the Scorecard provides a summary overview of your progress, and guidance on how to prioritise the next steps for your climate action plans, policies and regulations.
The Scorecard is intended to be used by policy makers and other relevant stakeholders, alongside their local Green Building Council, who want to assess how buildings are reflected in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and being implemented through their national building policies and regulations.
All other users can also access the full NDC Scorecard functionalities.
It is recommended that the Scorecard is used in workshops, which include different participants from the built environment community including policy makers, designers, developers, funders, NGOs and other industry professionals.
Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs, are national climate action plans submitted by each country under the Paris Agreement. A country’s NDC outlines their strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable the collective global goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5ºC and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The Paris Agreement requires that NDCs are updated with increasingly higher ambition, taking into consideration each country’s capacity.
The next round of updated NDCs are due in 2025. It is absolutely critical that the next batch of NDCs accelerates the transition and closes the gap to 1.5ºC. This can be achieved by recognising the role that buildings can play as a climate solution.
To meet global 2030 climate targets, nation’s must now collectively reduce emissions by 42%. Collectively, national commitments remain insufficient, with NDC commitments falling far short of the 1.5ºC goal, with current commitments on track for 2.6–3.1ºC of warming over the course of the century.
We know that the buildings and construction sector is a key driver of greenhouse gases, consuming 32% of global energy and contributing to 34% of global CO2 emissions. Therefore they present a huge opportunity to enable countries to meet their climate goals, as well as attracting investment, creating new green jobs, improving energy security, and lowering people’s energy bills.
The Scorecard was initially developed by WorldGBC and five pilot Green Building Councils (GBCs) from different global regions – Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Nigeria and the Philippines.
The development process also included local stakeholders and political actors, including GBCs, industry stakeholders and international organisations including C40 cities, CEMEX, Climate Champions Team, Climate Group, Energy Transition Commission, the GlobalABC, Global Optimism, IEA, NDC Partnerships, Saint Gobain, SE4ALL and WRI.
For support with the analysis of your NDC, policies and regulations, or to help develop a decarbonisation roadmap for the built environment, get in touch with your local GBC today.