Built Environment Commitment (BEC) Tool Prototype - An explainer

This tool is a mockup of a planned built environment commitment (BEC) tracker. It was commissioned by GlobalABC. It is somewhat like Climate Action Tracker (CAT) but it is specific to the building sector. The prototype has only three countries represented, and the data and information provided with each is not complete or may only be illustrative.

The tool tells this story: The buildings sector is a large GHG emitter but the cost of abatement in this sector is low and decarbonisation can happen quickly.

To use the tool, click the country name in the right panel: Egypt, Morocco or the United Arab Emirates. This will zoom the map and show the overall country rating and list the 11 new BECs. Click any BEC such as "Political Commitment" to see original NDC wording, and a proposed value add by a "future expert". How the score for this BEC was determined will be defined in a future scoring rubric.

Click CO2 emissions to see a graph of current and projected emissions, actions and abatement costs. Again, this is illustrative data. The graph has a slider which shows earlier commitments cost less; total decarbonisation costs more, but it costs less than the final cost of no action on building decarbonisation.

Click ">Countries" at the top to go back to the full map.

What's coming for NDC Tool?

The future tool will enjoy new research to fully implement the cost prediction model. The tool will be populated with the world's NDC commitments as they presently affect building emissions for all countries. The tool will provide French, Arabic, Mandarin and English. The tool will provide a finer to New Buildings, Appliances, Embodied energy and other parts of the sector.

Under consideration for the fully working tool is a concept of return on investment for buildings. Buildings are a great investment and high performing buildings attract a premium at sale, even while those buildings remain affordable. Builders that GBPN interacts with are expressing great interest in high performance affordable homes and buildings.

If you have any questions or ideas we would love to hear from you. Please use our feedback form here. There are boxes at the bottom of the form for general comments. You can also contact insights@gbpn.org.