The 2022 Global Buildings and Construction Report — Global Buildings Climate Tracker — was released on day four of COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt , Wednesday, November 9. This is a document provided annually by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (entity created in 2015 on the occasion of COP21 in Paris, under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Program – UNEP), making a detailed inventory of the construction industry in the world with regard to the objectives of reducing GHG emissions provided for in the Paris Agreements, to then issue a decarbonization roadmap for the sector accordingly.
It is clear that the 2022 version of the report is not laughable. At a time when the climate emergency is underlined from all sides, buildings do not appear to be good students. Indeed, one of the main data that can be found in the GlobalABC document is the following: in 2021, CO2 emissions from the construction industry increased by 5% compared to 2020… And by 2% compared to to 2019 . As for the sector's energy demand, it for its part experienced an increase of 4% compared to 2020, and 3% compared to 2019. The pandemic truce will therefore only have been of short duration, and would even seem to have left place for a disturbing rebound effect.
Many other indicators provided by the document follow the same trend, which can be summarized as follows: in 2021, buildings pollute more and consume more.
