Vincent Briard is Group Sustainability Director at Knauf Insulation.
Yosr Melki is Marketing & Communications Director Western Europe at Knauf Insulation.
Any assessment of a building’s sustainability must take into account the carbon emitted from heating and cooling during the entire lifecycle of that building as well as the CO2 associated with all its components, using an independent and scientifically robust audit known as a Lifecycle Assessment or LCA.
That means examining the embodied carbon of all building materials during their lifecycle from the extraction of materials, transportation, storage and manufacture to distribution, installation and end of life, while also looking into the operational carbon of that building resulting from its energy consumption.
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.”