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Sustainable Buildings & Construction for India: Policies, Practices and Performance

February 4th 2009
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
(In conjunction with the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS)5 – 7 February.

Hosted by:

  • UNEP Sustainable Buildings & Construction Initiative & the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable buildings & Construction
  • TERI – The Energy & Resources Institute, India

India has one of the fastest growing construction sectors in the world. New construction spending in 2004-2005 alone grew by 8% (SBCI, 2007). This puts enormous pressure on climate change, natural resource use (materials, water, and energy) as well as on the localized accumulation of waste from construction and the use of buildings.

India has rich traditions and history in holistic strategies for buildings and construction. Despite this the sustainable buildings agenda currently receives limited attention in India. Related governmental initiatives often make reference to sustainability performance as 'add-on' components to building developments. While there are some local initiatives promoting sustainable buildings which include research, pilot or advocacy projects, there is no coordinated approach to address the wider sustainable buildings agenda in India.

The proposed Roundtable on Sustainable Buildings in India will address these issues and bring together key stakeholders in the private and public sectors to share perspectives and ideas on what are the barriers and opportunities for achieving a market transformation towards sustainable buildings in India. The anticipated outputs would be threefold:

  1. An improved network and cooperation among Indian stakeholders and between the Indian and international sustainable buildings communities.
  2. Identified opportunities for international cooperation and support to the sustainable buildings agenda in India.
  3. A draft sustainable buildings agenda identifying needs, opportunities and key actors for realizing the above market transformation at the national level.

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Conferences & Side Events
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The property and the building sector and the Copenhagen Agreement

UNEP-SBCI held an official side-event at the UNFCCC Climate Change talks in Bonn, Germany, on June 3rd, 2009.

Sustainable Buildings & Construction for India: Policies, Practices and Performance

February 4th 2009
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
An official Side Event of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit DSDS)5 – 7 February
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Portugal SB10: Sustainable Building Affordable to All

The international conference Portugal SB10 will take place in Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal), from 17 to 19 March 2009.

Special announcement: International Green Building Conference, 28-30 October 2009, Singapore

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is organizing the inaugural International Green Building Conference (IGBC) 2009 in Singapore on 28-30 October 2009.

Annual Meetings & Symposium on Buildings & Climate Change, Washington D.C.

UNEP SBCI members the US Green Building Council played host to our Annual meetings in Washington DC from 15 – 17 April [...]

INTRODUCING UNEP SBCI's New Board for 2009-2010

Find out more about SBCI's new board...

OFFICIAL SUBMISSION to UNFCCC on Buildings & Climate Change

On 24th April our official UNEP SBCI submission to UNFCCC's Additional Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) was officially dispatched [...]

STAFF CHANGES @ SBCI

Find out more about recent and future changes within our staff...

The Year Ahead

Things to come...

UNEP SBCI Madrid Round Tables on Sustainable Buildings & Construction

Hosted by the City of Madrid December 2-4, the round-tables were very successful in moving our work programme forward.

UNEP SBCI DELIVERING 'SUSHI' - Sustainable Urban Housing Initiative

The Sustainable Social Housing Initiative (SUSHI) - will bring sustainable building practices to social housing programmes in Bankok, Thailand abd Sao Paulo, Brazil. SUSHI will develop and verify an approach for how to ensure that social housing programmes include design criteria and construction practices that support sustainable building principles.

UNFCCC to Prioritize Building Sector at COP 14

At a June side event in Bonn, Germany, the UNFCCC secretariats requested UNEP-SBCI’s to assist in reviewing how to put the building sector on the agenda at the upcoming Conference of the Parties 14 in Poznan, Poland in December 2008. [...]

Latin American Ministers Resolve to Promote Sustainable Building

Latin American and Caribbean environmental ministers resolved to promote sustainable building practices in their region during a forum in January. [...]

Mission Briefs: Beijing

UNEP Sustainable Consumption and Production chief Arab Hoballah met with Chinese officials in Beijing to discuss UNEP’s contribution to the post-earthquake recovery efforts June 12-13. [...]

Mission Briefs: Athens

UNEP-SBCI coordinator Peter Graham gave a presentation on SBCI to the European Insulation Manufacturer's Association general assembly in Athens, Greece May 30. [...]

Mission Briefs: Mexico

Peter Graham gave a presentation on SBCI at a forum for sustainable housing for the National Housing Commission of Mexico CONAVI on June 17 – 19 in Mexico City [...]

Country Report: India

Population and economic growth in India have placed great stress on the country’s environment and resources. Increasing energy consumption in various industrial sectors continues to drive India’s energy consumption toward surpassing that of China [...]

SBCI Annual Meetings Succeed in Martinique

SBCI's Annual Think Tank Round Tables, Outreach to Latin America and Caribbean Countries, and Annual General Meeting concluded successfully in Martinique on April 12th. [...]

SBCI - The Year Ahead

Here's what is on our agenda for our four focus areas this year [...]

Briefing: Policies for Energy Efficient Buildings in China

China has the biggest construction volume in the world. More than ninety percent of new buildings are considered to be high life-cycle energy buildings. [...]

SBCI Meetings with the Federal Association of the Italian Regions (ITACA)

Niclas Svenningsen visited the Italian SBCI member ITACA (in late November) to meet with a number of senior local officials [...]

'Construction Counts for Climate' Side-Event at Bali COP 13

On 7 December SBCI in cooperation with the Marrakech Task Force and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, held an official side event at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC in Bali. [...]

EnerGAIA - Montpellier

The EnerGAIA conference in Montpellier, hosted by the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon provided a forum for sharing experiences with energy efficiency and integrating renewable energies in Europe in general and the Mediterranean region in particular. [...]

ArcelorMittal Site Visit in Luxembourg

On the 11th December Peter Graham was invited to join a site visit of the facilities of SBCI member, ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg. He was joined by SBCI Chairman Thierry Braine-Bonnaire. [...]

Report from Burkina Faso

UNEP SBCI members Plasterdil, represented by M. Jean Louis CHARDENET and Architect Amelie Essesse are assisting the development of a sustainable building project in the West African country Burkina Fas

Policy tools report launched

SBCI, in partnership with the Central European University in Budapest, has undertaken a worldwide review of lessons learned from the application of different types of governmental policy tools supporting energy efficiency in buildings.
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