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Sufficiency can make a significant contribution to climate protection and other sustainability goals in the building sector. To this end, the project identified approaches, quantified potential savings and described proposals for policy instruments.
The building sector faces major challenges in meeting climate and sustainability targets due to its large environmental impacts and the investment cycles associated with the long life cycles and useful lives of buildings. Policy and planning measures to date are mainly implemented in the context of efficiency (how are resources used efficiently) and consistency strategies (how are resources used in an environmentally friendly way) to reduce environmental impacts. In comparison, sufficiency (how much consumption do planetary boundaries and global justice allow) receives much less attention.
The aim of this project was to define sufficiency for the building sector and to identify suitable technical and organisational approaches to support it. In addition, proposals were developed on how these sufficiency approaches could be integrated into political and legal frameworks and instruments.
Contractors of the research project were: ifeu – Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH, Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Monika Schröder
Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
Division WB 2 "Instrumente zur Emissionsminderung im Gebäudebereich"
Phone: +49 228 99401-1636
Email:
monika.schroeder@bbr.bund.de