{"id":1417,"date":"2025-12-03T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:36:46","slug":"achieving-net-zero-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/achieving-net-zero-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving net-zero buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An action plan for market transformation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building sector is responsible for 37% of energy-related carbon emissions, making the transition to net-zero buildings a crucial response to climate change. Key highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A 12-step action plan for policymakers and industry to create an enabling environment for net-zero operational emissions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A call for a fundamental shift from code compliance to a performance-based framework focused on the real energy performance of buildings in operation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guidance for governments on setting national decarbonization pathways, mandating performance disclosure, and implementing minimum performance standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/resources\/achieving-net-zero-buildings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WBCSD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An action plan for market transformation\u00a0 The building sector is responsible for 37% of energy-related carbon emissions, making the transition to net-zero buildings a crucial response to climate change. Key highlights include: WBCSD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-business-council-for-sustainable-development","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}