Buildings account for 37% of global emissions, yet climate-smart construction could lower energy bills, improve living conditions, & make housing more resilient.
A recent UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yssazasa
A recent UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yssazasa
June 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Buildings account for 37% of global emissions, yet climate-smart construction could lower energy bills, improve living conditions, & make housing more resilient.
A recent UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yssazasa
A recent UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yssazasa
Buildings account for 37% of global emissions, yet climate-smart construction could lower energy bills, improve living conditions, & make housing more resilient.
A new UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
A new UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
May 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Buildings account for 37% of global emissions, yet climate-smart construction could lower energy bills, improve living conditions, & make housing more resilient.
A new UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
A new UNEP & GlobalABC report warns progress on decarbonising buildings is lagging behind.
Read more: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
I'm organising these events on behalf of the Clean Heat Forum, a global network I co-lead
@regassistproj.bsky.social alongside @e3g.bsky.social, DESNZ and Scottish Government. Please check it out and consider joining. globalabc.org/clean-heat-f...
@regassistproj.bsky.social alongside @e3g.bsky.social, DESNZ and Scottish Government. Please check it out and consider joining. globalabc.org/clean-heat-f...
Clean Heat Forum | GlobalABC
About the GlobalABC Clean Heat ForumThe GlobalABC Clean Heat Forum, launched at COP26 in Glasgow, is an international collaborative effort between national governments, NGOs, and companies to share po...
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November 11, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I'm organising these events on behalf of the Clean Heat Forum, a global network I co-lead
@regassistproj.bsky.social alongside @e3g.bsky.social, DESNZ and Scottish Government. Please check it out and consider joining. globalabc.org/clean-heat-f...
@regassistproj.bsky.social alongside @e3g.bsky.social, DESNZ and Scottish Government. Please check it out and consider joining. globalabc.org/clean-heat-f...
😃What a week! - Quick recap on the Sustainable Buildings & Construction Summit 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by UNEP, GlobalABC and EPFL’s Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Construction.
@unep.org @join-globalabc.bsky.social @gbdi.io
@unep.org @join-globalabc.bsky.social @gbdi.io
April 30, 2026 at 11:23 AM
😃What a week! - Quick recap on the Sustainable Buildings & Construction Summit 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by UNEP, GlobalABC and EPFL’s Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Construction.
@unep.org @join-globalabc.bsky.social @gbdi.io
@unep.org @join-globalabc.bsky.social @gbdi.io
CHN Field Notes from March:
🌱 @iclei.org and @africa.iclei.org announce the first Race to Resilience Culture cohort!
🌟 @preservinglegacies.bsky.social kicks off HACA Community Leaders Circle across the US & Togo!
🏙️ Built Buildings Lab advocates for heritage based decarbonization at GlobalABC!
🌱 @iclei.org and @africa.iclei.org announce the first Race to Resilience Culture cohort!
🌟 @preservinglegacies.bsky.social kicks off HACA Community Leaders Circle across the US & Togo!
🏙️ Built Buildings Lab advocates for heritage based decarbonization at GlobalABC!
April 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
CHN Field Notes from March:
🌱 @iclei.org and @africa.iclei.org announce the first Race to Resilience Culture cohort!
🌟 @preservinglegacies.bsky.social kicks off HACA Community Leaders Circle across the US & Togo!
🏙️ Built Buildings Lab advocates for heritage based decarbonization at GlobalABC!
🌱 @iclei.org and @africa.iclei.org announce the first Race to Resilience Culture cohort!
🌟 @preservinglegacies.bsky.social kicks off HACA Community Leaders Circle across the US & Togo!
🏙️ Built Buildings Lab advocates for heritage based decarbonization at GlobalABC!
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Bold on Buildings: How Climate Action Roadmaps are inspiring building-sector ambition
Find out more: globalabc.org/index.php/eve...
#ClimateAction
Bold on Buildings: How Climate Action Roadmaps are inspiring building-sector ambition
Find out more: globalabc.org/index.php/eve...
#ClimateAction
Bold on Buildings: How Climate Action Roadmaps are inspiring building-sector ambition in NDCs | GlobalABC
This is one of the sessions taking place on Day 2 of
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April 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Bold on Buildings: How Climate Action Roadmaps are inspiring building-sector ambition
Find out more: globalabc.org/index.php/eve...
#ClimateAction
Bold on Buildings: How Climate Action Roadmaps are inspiring building-sector ambition
Find out more: globalabc.org/index.php/eve...
#ClimateAction
🏆 The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) World Championship for Energy Savings showcases buildings with outstanding measured energy & carbon performance, and is a great opportunity to put Passive House projects in the spotlight at COP31!
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
September 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🏆 The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) World Championship for Energy Savings showcases buildings with outstanding measured energy & carbon performance, and is a great opportunity to put Passive House projects in the spotlight at COP31!
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
🏆 Take your Passive House project to COP31!
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
August 26, 2026 at 12:01 PM
🏆 Take your Passive House project to COP31!
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
Concrete is not 8% per the most recent thing I saw (this has all building materials combined at ~8% of world total: www.unep.org/resources/pu...; this includes a lot of nonresidential construction).
2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction
The Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (Buildings-GSR) is a flagship publication of the UNEP-hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC). The Buildings-GSR provi...
www.unep.org
June 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Concrete is not 8% per the most recent thing I saw (this has all building materials combined at ~8% of world total: www.unep.org/resources/pu...; this includes a lot of nonresidential construction).
Reference link: www.unep.org/resources/re....
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction
The Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (Buildings-GSR), a report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), p...
www.unep.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Reference link: www.unep.org/resources/re....
2️⃣ Next steps on the pathway for clean heating 🔥🛣️
Who: Polish gov, Schneider Electric, Carrier, UK CCC, UNEP
When: 19 November at 16:30 local and 13:30 Paris/12:30 London.
Where: GlobalABC Buildings Pavilion and livestreamed here: globalabc.org/cop-buildings-pavilion
Come one, come all!
Who: Polish gov, Schneider Electric, Carrier, UK CCC, UNEP
When: 19 November at 16:30 local and 13:30 Paris/12:30 London.
Where: GlobalABC Buildings Pavilion and livestreamed here: globalabc.org/cop-buildings-pavilion
Come one, come all!
November 12, 2024 at 8:21 AM
2️⃣ Next steps on the pathway for clean heating 🔥🛣️
Who: Polish gov, Schneider Electric, Carrier, UK CCC, UNEP
When: 19 November at 16:30 local and 13:30 Paris/12:30 London.
Where: GlobalABC Buildings Pavilion and livestreamed here: globalabc.org/cop-buildings-pavilion
Come one, come all!
Who: Polish gov, Schneider Electric, Carrier, UK CCC, UNEP
When: 19 November at 16:30 local and 13:30 Paris/12:30 London.
Where: GlobalABC Buildings Pavilion and livestreamed here: globalabc.org/cop-buildings-pavilion
Come one, come all!
🏆 Take your Passive House project to COP31!
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
September 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
🏆 Take your Passive House project to COP31!
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
The YeS Honour Awards are open, offering an exciting opportunity to showcase innovative, low-carbon and energy-efficient building design on an international stage.
👉 https://yesint.csb.gov.tr/
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
🚨 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝟯𝟬 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵!
GlobalABC + Cool Coalition kick off a 5-part journey to the #BuildingsAndCooling Pavilion at COP30 🌿❄️
🔗 Register: globalabc.org/news/webinar...
GlobalABC + Cool Coalition kick off a 5-part journey to the #BuildingsAndCooling Pavilion at COP30 🌿❄️
🔗 Register: globalabc.org/news/webinar...
June 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🚨 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝟯𝟬 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵!
GlobalABC + Cool Coalition kick off a 5-part journey to the #BuildingsAndCooling Pavilion at COP30 🌿❄️
🔗 Register: globalabc.org/news/webinar...
GlobalABC + Cool Coalition kick off a 5-part journey to the #BuildingsAndCooling Pavilion at COP30 🌿❄️
🔗 Register: globalabc.org/news/webinar...
Advancing zero-emission, efficient and resilient buildings: Get to know the Global Alliance for Buildings & Construction #GlobalABC and find out how the #IKI supports the initiative ➡️ buff.ly/zXnOrJ0
@UNEP.org #IKISustainableCities #ResilientUrbanFuture
@UNEP.org #IKISustainableCities #ResilientUrbanFuture
July 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Advancing zero-emission, efficient and resilient buildings: Get to know the Global Alliance for Buildings & Construction #GlobalABC and find out how the #IKI supports the initiative ➡️ buff.ly/zXnOrJ0
@UNEP.org #IKISustainableCities #ResilientUrbanFuture
@UNEP.org #IKISustainableCities #ResilientUrbanFuture
🏆 The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) World Championship for Energy Savings showcases buildings with outstanding measured energy & carbon performance, and is a great opportunity to put Passive House projects in the spotlight at COP31!
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
August 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🏆 The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) World Championship for Energy Savings showcases buildings with outstanding measured energy & carbon performance, and is a great opportunity to put Passive House projects in the spotlight at COP31!
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
👉 https://ow.ly/WmPl50ZFynw
Usually referred to is globalabc /unep, its including embodied carbon, a 'little' detail that is often left aside globalabc.org/our-work/tra... and worldgbc.org/advancing-ne...
October 9, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Usually referred to is globalabc /unep, its including embodied carbon, a 'little' detail that is often left aside globalabc.org/our-work/tra... and worldgbc.org/advancing-ne...
Last week at #COP30, the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism released a policy brief to cap off a year-long collaboration between the MIT Climate Policy Center, GlobalABC and @unep-ccc.bsky.social. See the brief, "Deploying Established Climate Technologies & Solutions for Buildings," here:
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Last week at #COP30, the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism released a policy brief to cap off a year-long collaboration between the MIT Climate Policy Center, GlobalABC and @unep-ccc.bsky.social. See the brief, "Deploying Established Climate Technologies & Solutions for Buildings," here:
#MITatCOP30 Bethany Patten moderated the “Driving Global Uptake of Climate Solutions for Buildings” event last week in the Blue Zone. Launching a UNFCCC TEC, GlobalABC, UNEP & MIT CPC policy brief + solutions catalogue from Solar Impulse Foundation & partners: buff.ly/C4oiek1 #COP30
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#MITatCOP30 Bethany Patten moderated the “Driving Global Uptake of Climate Solutions for Buildings” event last week in the Blue Zone. Launching a UNFCCC TEC, GlobalABC, UNEP & MIT CPC policy brief + solutions catalogue from Solar Impulse Foundation & partners: buff.ly/C4oiek1 #COP30
Welcome to the #IKI family! 🏗️ This project supports the Buildings Breakthrough Initiative coordinated by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction to make near-zero emission, climate-resilient buildings the global standard by 2030—especially in the Global South
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Supporting the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) and The Buildings Breakthrough
Buildings are responsible for nearly 37% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. However, the sector could become climate-neutral by 2050 if material savings are…
buff.ly
June 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Welcome to the #IKI family! 🏗️ This project supports the Buildings Breakthrough Initiative coordinated by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction to make near-zero emission, climate-resilient buildings the global standard by 2030—especially in the Global South
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Cement, steel, bricks, glass & aluminium = 20%+ of global GHGs.
New insights from GlobalABC show we can cut emissions by up to 46% with action to:
📊 Improve data availability
📏 Close standards gaps on embodied carbon
💰 Mobilize finance incl. carbon markets
Read the full report: lnkd.in/dw6ZKra8
New insights from GlobalABC show we can cut emissions by up to 46% with action to:
📊 Improve data availability
📏 Close standards gaps on embodied carbon
💰 Mobilize finance incl. carbon markets
Read the full report: lnkd.in/dw6ZKra8
June 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Cement, steel, bricks, glass & aluminium = 20%+ of global GHGs.
New insights from GlobalABC show we can cut emissions by up to 46% with action to:
📊 Improve data availability
📏 Close standards gaps on embodied carbon
💰 Mobilize finance incl. carbon markets
Read the full report: lnkd.in/dw6ZKra8
New insights from GlobalABC show we can cut emissions by up to 46% with action to:
📊 Improve data availability
📏 Close standards gaps on embodied carbon
💰 Mobilize finance incl. carbon markets
Read the full report: lnkd.in/dw6ZKra8
Did you know that energy demand from the building and construction sector represents over a fifth of global emissions?
A new report shows that in 2022 the sector accounted for 37% of global operational energy and process-related CO2 emissions.
Here's the report: www.unep.org/resources/re...
A new report shows that in 2022 the sector accounted for 37% of global operational energy and process-related CO2 emissions.
Here's the report: www.unep.org/resources/re...
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction
The Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (Buildings-GSR), a report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), p...
www.unep.org
March 12, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Did you know that energy demand from the building and construction sector represents over a fifth of global emissions?
A new report shows that in 2022 the sector accounted for 37% of global operational energy and process-related CO2 emissions.
Here's the report: www.unep.org/resources/re...
A new report shows that in 2022 the sector accounted for 37% of global operational energy and process-related CO2 emissions.
Here's the report: www.unep.org/resources/re...
At the Bonn Climate Change Conference, COP31 organizers announced measurable global targets for 2035, including ambitious targets for the building and construction sector.
👉 Read the latest from GlobalABC and discover what these targets could mean for the building sector: buff.ly/cpNOjsJ
👉 Read the latest from GlobalABC and discover what these targets could mean for the building sector: buff.ly/cpNOjsJ
August 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
At the Bonn Climate Change Conference, COP31 organizers announced measurable global targets for 2035, including ambitious targets for the building and construction sector.
👉 Read the latest from GlobalABC and discover what these targets could mean for the building sector: buff.ly/cpNOjsJ
👉 Read the latest from GlobalABC and discover what these targets could mean for the building sector: buff.ly/cpNOjsJ
☀️📚 #DTERBIMSummerReads | If you work in construction, renovation, or the built environment, this report is well worth adding to your summer reading list.
Published by @unep.org and GlobalABC, it provides a great overview of where the sector stands on climate action: www.unep.org/resources/re...
Published by @unep.org and GlobalABC, it provides a great overview of where the sector stands on climate action: www.unep.org/resources/re...
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2025-2026
Launched at the 13 session of the World Urban Forum, UNEP and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)'s tenth edition of the Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction ...
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July 24, 2026 at 12:59 PM
☀️📚 #DTERBIMSummerReads | If you work in construction, renovation, or the built environment, this report is well worth adding to your summer reading list.
Published by @unep.org and GlobalABC, it provides a great overview of where the sector stands on climate action: www.unep.org/resources/re...
Published by @unep.org and GlobalABC, it provides a great overview of where the sector stands on climate action: www.unep.org/resources/re...