UNEP SBCI-BCA REGIONAL STATUS REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE BUILDING POLICIES IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
The United Nations Environment Programme-Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI) in partnership with the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore (BCA) is conducting a regional status report in South-East Asia within the framework of the global status reporting on sustainable buildings, launched by UNEP-SBCI. This regional status reporting in South-East Asia will collate the current status and trends from sustainable buildings initiatives in the region, with the aim of publishing the Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia.
The Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia will provide an overview of the policies and initiatives put in place in various South-East Asian countries on promoting the development of sustainable buildings, focusing first on Energy Efficiency related initiatives. The report is being conducted by BCA’s Centre for Sustainable Buildings and Construction (CSBC).
The objectives are to provide:
- An overview of sustainable building trends, policies and buildings in South-East Asia, with a focus on: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
- An insight into building classifications of sustainable buildings in the region.
- A survey of existing regional studies, institutions and experts involved in these studies.
- A platform to build up a knowledge infrastructure on sustainable buildings which will facilitate the ongoing process of data collection and support collective learning in South-East Asia.
The Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia aims to profile the country’s sustainable building policies according to the four category classification of policy instruments developed by UNEP-SBCI [source UNEP-SBCI publication: “Assessment of Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Buildings”, 2007]. These are:
- Category 1: Voluntary instruments
- Category 2: Fiscal instruments
- Category 3: Regulatory instruments
- Category 4: Market-based instruments
Click here to view the leaflet on the Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia.
Under the ambit of the Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia are a series of Country Reports on Sustainable Building Policies on Energy Efficiency, collated as of June 2011, which aims to profile each country's sustainable building policies and initiatives on energy efficiency according to the four categories stated above. The Country Reports are as follows:
UNEP-SBCI COMMON CARBON METRIC PILOT
UNEP-SBCI launched the Common Carbon Metric (the Metric) at UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) 15 in Copenhagen. Since then UNEP-SBCI partnered with the World Resource Institute (WRI), author of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, to support and compliment the Metric with a corresponding protocol, calculation tool and reporting template. The Common Carbon Metric (CCM) aims to serve as a global metric for measuring energy and reporting carbon emissions of buildings to establish performance baselines. The CCM was launched on 19 May 2010 in Paris at the UNEP-SBCI Symposium on Sustainable Buildings.
BCA participated in Phase I of the CCM Pilot and will participate in the Phase II pilot in 3rd/4th quarter of 2011.