GlobalABC: Transforming the Built Environment through Sustainable Materials
The initiative identifies and mobilises stakeholders across the entire buildings and construction value chain to co-create a national roadmap for sector decarbonisation. A participatory process has established four technical working groups—Existing Buildings, New Buildings, Spatial & Urban Development, and Construction Supply Chain—to translate high-level climate ambitions into practical measures, milestones, and governance arrangements.
Five-Axis Transformation
Data
Baseline mapping of energy use, materials flows and emissions across building lifecycles; development of indicators to track progress against roadmap targets.
Capacity Building / Technical Assistance
Working-group clinics and technical sessions for ministries, city authorities, professional bodies and industry to align methods (codes, standards, LCA, MRV) and share best practice.
Technology / Machinery
Identification of priority solutions (high-performance envelopes, efficient MEP systems, low-carbon materials, retrofit toolkits, digital permitting) and pathways for market uptake.
Finance
Options to unlock investment—green building incentives, public procurement levers, concessional finance for retrofits, and risk-sharing mechanisms for low-carbon materials and technologies.
Policy
Draft measures spanning energy codes, retrofit standards, urban planning and transport integration, construction waste and circularity regulations, and supply-chain decarbonisation requirements.
Strategic Impact & Value Proposition
Clear, Shared Direction
A nationally owned roadmap that coordinates government, cities, industry and financiers around time-bound actions.
Rapid Near-Term Wins
Retrofit and operations improvements in existing buildings paired with procurement and code updates for new stock.
Market Signals for Innovation
Standards and incentives that de-risk investment in low-carbon materials and building technologies.
City-Scale Integration
Spatial planning links buildings with transport, nature-based cooling and resilient urban infrastructure.
Measured Progress
A practical MRV framework to track emissions reduction, energy efficiency gains and circularity outcomes.