EU Council Adopts Rules Mandating Net-Zero Buildings by 2050
The European Union Council has adopted an amended directive on helping decrease greenhouse-gas emissions and energy poverty. The directive’s primary objective is addressing the energy performance of buildings. At the moment, buildings produce more than one-third of greenhouse emissions in the European Union. Under the new directive, all buildings shall be zero-emission by 2050. By 2050, the European Union’s building stock should have transformed into zero-emission building stock. The directive also introduced standards on energy performance for nonresidential buildings in an effort to ensure that they do not surpass the maximum amount of energy used every year for each square…
