Race to Net Zero Carbon:
A Climate Emergency Guide for New and Existing Buildings in Australia
We are pleased to announce the release of a national guide that provides reliable and science-based metrics and targets towards creating a net zero carbon built environment for Australia!
Delivering net zero carbon buildings is critically important in tackling the climate emergency in Australia. This climate emergency guide, opens in a new window, led by Scientia Professor Deo Prasad, is Australia’s first national guide that provides reliable and science-based benchmarks, targets and pathways towards net zero operational and embodied carbon for new and existing buildings across the nation.
These performance targets can provide a strong foundation to reducing carbon emissions in the built environment sector through a range of regulatory and non-regulatory measures (e.g. legislation, assessment frameworks, design competitions and awards, contract documents, etc.). As such, the guide is useful to a wide range of built environment practitioners such as architects, engineers, building designers, sustainability consultants, researchers, policy makers and design/planning students.
The guide is an easily digestible summary of an upcoming book: Delivering on the Climate Emergency: Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment.
Suggestions of data, methods or feedback for any future editions of the Guide can be emailed to d.prasad@unsw.edu.au
