7 key strategies to decarbonise the built environment through policy reform

Building resilient policy strategies

GBPN has worked closely with local building experts and policy makers in Indonesia over the past two years to refine a strategy that enables decarbonization of the built environment through policy reform.

This 7-step model has been developed through a bottom-up and highly participative process. It aims to support public and private sector stakeholders to better work together toward achieving common decarbonization goals. 

This approach has already been implemented successfully in countries such as Indonesia (where it was developed) and India, demonstrating that the principles can be effectively applied in many parts of the world where similar policy development and implementation challenges are present. 

Primarily targeting policy makers, this strategy is intended to form a living, operational framework that provides ‘know-how’ and guidance to assist governments in achieving effective policy reforms that offer quantified and data-driven contributions toward reaching NDC targets. 

The strategy relies on an in-depth analysis and understanding of the status-quo and the building regulatory framework. The main goal is to foster vertical-horizontal coordination – for example between national and sub-national government departments – to avoid ineffective overlaps and provide opportunities for up-scaling interventions as well as synergies of action.

Our 7-step policy strategy was developed using a bottom-up approach with a variety of inputs, including:

• Consultation with local experts
• Insights from GBPN’s international network
• Desk research 
• Workshops and Focus Group Discussions with public and private stakeholders
• Webinars
• Direct inputs from GBPN’s live pilot projects at a national and subnational level
• Understanding of how to implement policy reform and regulatory programs at a national level.

This is a fundamental point of difference for GBPN, as our teams are engaging deeply with local experts, local regulatory processes and laws, the evidence-base and the GBPN collective intelligence.

A strategy for bottom-up policy reform