Directive (EU) 2024/1275 on Energy Performance of Buildings (recast)

Directive (EU) 2024/1275, the recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), emphasizes the importance of minimizing whole-life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of buildings. It mandates the calculation of the global warming potential (GWP) over a building's whole life cycle for new buildings, integrating embodied carbon from construction products with direct and indirect emissions from the use stage. This directive aims to promote resource efficiency and circularity in the building sector to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

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• Jurisdiction European Union
• Category Whole-Life and Embodied Carbon
• Legal stage published
• Binding status binding_eu_law
• Effective date 2024-05-08
• Source EUR-Lex - Directive (EU) 2024/1275