Déclaration de Chaillot: the new fundamentals of sustainable construction ORIGINS OF THIS MAJOR STEP The history of the Déclaration de Chaillot goes back to 2015 at COP21 in Paris. The United Nations Environment Programme created the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction to give greater prominence to the role of the building sector, which accounts for 37% of global CO2 emissions. The initiative aims to help States to implement the Paris Agreement and thus contribute to the treaty’s primary objective: “to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels”. In 2022, at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the French and Moroccan governments issued a call for a “buildings breakthrough”, a commitment by States to ensure that “near-zero emission and resilient buildings are the new normal by 2030”. At COP28 in Dubai a year later, 28 countries signed this commitment, with the support of most of the major international building organizations. While the construction sector needs innovative public policies to support its change, it also needs a clear, secure and stable long-term framework to drive the necessary transformation. To put construction back on the climate agenda, 70 countries signed the Déclaration de Chaillot in March 2024. A major step towards a fair, rapid and effective transition of the sector, which now needs to be put into action. SPOTLIGHT 96
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