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The European Commission is considering a new EU-wide requirement to measure the carbon emissions associated with construction materials throughout their whole lifecycle but is expected to stop short of regulating.
After months of talks and intense negotiations between Member States and the European Parliament, the European Union has agreed to cut its carbon emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
Vincent Briard is Group Sustainability Director at Knauf Insulation. Quentin Galland is Public Affairs Director at Knauf Insulation.
Now the hard work is underway to make this target a reality. And it is a lot of hard work. Many major EU laws on energy and climate are expected to undergo a revision process that will start this year.
In the words of Pascal Canfin, Renew Europe MEP, chair of the European Parliament’s Environment and Public Safety Committee, “We are going to do two and half times more in nine years than what we have done in the past 10 years in Europe.”