The Green Building Council of Australia has released a roadmap to decarbonise Australia’s precincts – setting a net zero goal for new precincts by 2030, and existing precincts by 2050.

Climate Positive Roadmap for precincts defines the steps that need to be taken by all stakeholders to achieve the decarbonisation targets including:

• embedding climate positive pathways into all stages of planning
• committing to fossil-fuel-free precincts and ensure policy and planning processes support this ambition
• removing the barriers to low carbon precinct energy solutions
• driving lower upfront carbon in materials and construction activity
• committing to delivering low carbon buildings in all precincts.

The roadmap builds on significant industry consultation and feedback on the discussion paper released in October 2021. GBCA aims to update the roadmap every one to two years as new information is available, practices change, or with other areas of opportunity.

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