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Note: National Embodied Carbon Data Repository is now live 📢

New Zealand’s National Embodied Carbon Data Repository, NECO2, is now freely and publicly available. View detail here.

Zero-carbon built environment

Climate change has big implications for the building industry. It has been estimated that buildings are directly and indirectly responsible for 16–20% of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of the BRANZ Transition to a zero-carbon built environment programme is that, by 2050, the building and construction industry is delivering net-zero carbon buildings in an affordable way.