Target 2030 for carbon neutral buildings.
A comprehensive U.S. policy regarding sustainability has still yet to proposed and cannot be written without the design communities’ expertise and experience with Cradle to Cradle eco-effectiveness.
In January of 2006, Architecture 2030 officially issued the ‘2030 Challenge’ that calls for (1) all new buildings and developments to be designed to use half the fossil fuel energy they would typically consume, (2) at a minimum, an equal amount of existing building area be renovated annually to use half the amount of fossil fuel energy, and (3) the fossil fuel reduction standard for all new buildings be increased to 60% in 2010, 70% in 2015, 80% in 2020, 90% in 2025 and carbon neutral by 2030.
As part of the Energy Bill of January 2008, the Challenge targets are now required for all new and renovated Federal buildings beginning in 2010. But Federal buildings are less than two percent of all U.S. building stock. The targets should be expanded into all new or renovated U.S. buildings.
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