The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) has released An Action Plan for the Renovation Wave, setting forth a strategy to deliver climate-neutrality for Europe’s buildings by 2050 while supporting economic recovery post COVID-19.

BPIE’s Action Plan provides evidence-based recommendations for all actors across the value chain of the building sector, suggesting that they should embrace change and launch the renovation wave, which was first proposed by the European Commission’s Communication on the European Green Deal in December 2019.

BPIE envision that in a climate-neutral Europe, buildings will be:

• healthy and foster wellbeing
• part of the energy system infrastructure
• highly energy efficient
• circular in relation to their material
• fossil fuels free
• resilient to climate risks

The document emphasises that building sector can successfully contribute to the EU climate neutrality objective only if all actors move in the same direction.

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