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This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute, produced as part of the Stockholm+50 meeting, synthesizes reports from GlobalABC, IEA, IRP, and UNEP to analyze the construction sector's environmental impact. It advocates for a value-chain approach to address the sector's high material intensity and proposes five interconnected policy intervention areas to facilitate a sustainable transition.

This policy brief, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute in June 2022, analyzes the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the global construction and buildings value chain. It emphasizes that decisions made during the early stages of planning and finance heavily dictate the sustainability outcomes of the entire chain. The document advocates for a multi-stakeholder approach involving regulations, green public procurement, and urban planning to transition toward net-zero emissions and higher material efficiency.

The 'Roadmap to Net Zero' report, developed by the World Resources Institute and the Apparel Impact Institute, provides a strategy for the apparel sector to achieve a 45% absolute emissions reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050. It estimates 2019 sector emissions at 1.025 gigatons CO2e and identifies six key technical interventions and a shift toward circular business models to align with a 1.5°C warming scenario.