Why does the EU Taxonomy miss the mark on construction?

receiving growing attention’ and that the future expert iii According to the draft text for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: ‘major renovation’ means the renovation of a building where either (a) the total cost of the renovation relating to the building envelope or technical building systems is higher than 25% of the building value, (excluding the land value). [...] Why does the EU Taxonomy miss the mark on construction? 11 Public disclosure of whole life carbon (WLC) emissions and of environmental product declarations (EPD) This option builds on the existing provisions of the A first possibility to better account for whole life carbon climate DA and on the forthcoming revision of the Energy of buildings is therefore to extend this requirement to Performance. [...] In the context of the taxonomy, the TEG identified the need in 2019 to set performance • The benchmarks currently used in the taxonomy on the requirements related to embodied carbon in buildings- building sector (covering operational emissions only) are related activities as a priority. [...] top-down) reveal a gap between the reality of the building sector and the • bottom-up benchmarks, which relate to ‘the values necessity of climate science”.27 In the short term, given of the existing level of embodied carbon based on an that the bottom-up approach is the most widely used, empirical dataset.’ the integration of performance requirements based on existing empirical datasets in the ta. [...] The new criteria The elaboration of the EU WLC framework and the under the environment delegated act4 already implementation of the first measure proposed in this contribute to bio-based and circular material paper will provide the basis for this measure to be uptake.