Czechia, Ireland and Spain are the first three EU countries participating in a new initiative, called INDICATE, which aims to boost the availability of quality building climate data as a fundamental step towards full decarbonisation.

This new project aims to accelerate policy development across Europe to generate a baseline data for buildings which can help guide policymakers by tackling the whole life carbon limits. Although The EU recently took its own first steps towards whole life carbon regulation with proposals to introduce mandatory reporting in the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), currently, all building regulations in Europe only address carbon emissions from the building operation. The initiative aims to fill this data gap.

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