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Posted 06 Mar 2024

Updated 27 Mar 2024

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  • Nagpur’s ZCBAP aims at developing all buildings to be net zero carbon by 2050
    • Zero carbon buildings are buildings that improve their lifecycle environmental performance through measures that reduce embodied, operational, and end-of-life GHG emissions without compromising visual and thermal comforts.
  • ZCBAP in Nagpur has been developed jointly with implementing partners of the Zero Carbon Building Accelerator (ZCBA) project. 
    • ZCBA project was launched by World Resources Institute (WRI) in 2021 along with its global partners. 
    • Nagpur is one of six global cities (other in Kenya, Costa Rica, Turkey, and Colombia) where ZCBA project is being implemented. 

 

  • Need for ZCBAP:
    • India’s building related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions have more than doubled from 2000 to 2017. 
    • Over next 20-30 years, GHG emissions from India’s steel and cement industry are estimated to increase by nearly three and six times respectively. 
    • Brick kilns are another major source of carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, NOx, and other particulate emissions.

 

  • Nagpur’s ZCBAP builds upon national policy frameworks and initiatives supporting building decarbonization, which include:
    • India’s Nationally Determined Contributions
    • India’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategy
    • Energy Conservation Building Code, 2017
    • Green Building Rating Systems such as Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) and 
    • Eco-Niwas Samhita 2018
  • Tags :
  • Zero Carbon Building Accelerator
  • Zero Carbon Buildings
  • Nagpur
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