France RE2020 Environmental Regulation for Buildings

The French RE2020 environmental regulation sets new requirements for buildings, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to construction materials over the building's lifetime, including demolition. It introduces caps on embodied carbon emissions with a phase-in period and progressively tighter limits, encouraging the use of low-carbon building materials and transforming the construction value chain towards sustainability.

Record

• Jurisdiction France
• Category Whole-Life and Embodied Carbon
• Legal stage published
• Binding status binding_national_law
• Source Agora Energiewende - Reducing embodied carbon in construction materials: RE2020 in France