We know it’s a bold claim.
However, according to the ‘Infrastructure for climate action’ report by the UN Environment Programme, the built environment is responsible for 79% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
We cannot state this clearly enough: without immediate course correction on carbon emissions, the world faces catastrophic consequences.
If we are to succeed in limiting global warming to 1.5°C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the sector needs to rapidly transform how it delivers and operates buildings and infrastructure.
PAS 2080 is how we do this.
A management specification that, with its guidance document, provides step-by-step guidance on how to reduce whole-life carbon emissions. It is published by BSI, the international standards and certification body.
The specification explains how to integrate carbon into decision making and procurement from project inception through to end-of-life, enabling the decarbonisation of assets, networks and systems. It makes clear that the greatest opportunity for carbon reduction is in the earliest stages of the project lifecycle when questions can be asked about what to build, how to build and, indeed, whether to build it at all.
PAS 2080 can be used by organisations across the whole built environment value chain, no matter where they are on their carbon reduction journey – whether not yet started or advanced. It sets out the roles and responsibilities of every organisation at every stage in the project lifecycle, providing a common framework and language for decarbonisation.
Download the guidance document.
Read the PAS 2080: Putting carbon management into action report.
We recognise that some organisations may not be ready for full accreditation and wish to pursue a more staged approach to building carbon capability in the short term. By investing in improving carbon management capability in a limited number of components, those organisations will see major benefits and pave the way for full accreditation.
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Mott MacDonald has been at the heart of PAS 2080 from the very beginning, co-authoring the specification in 2016 and its update in April 2023.
As the first consultant to be accredited, we know what it takes and support our clients worldwide in improving their carbon management maturity and achieving accreditation for themselves.
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