SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 14:00-16:00 CEST, in Bonn (GIZ Offices)
With buildings and construction accounting for 37% of the global CO₂ emissions, reducing energy consumption poses both a massive opportunity to cut the energy bills while cutting GHG emissions. Despite this mitigation potential, buildings’ decarbonisation remains chronically underfinanced. According to the latest UNEP Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction, while investments in energy efficiency have grown 3% from 2023 to 2024, the total investments accumulated were 1.3 USD trillion below the needed value for the overall 2015-2024 period. To put the sector on track to achieve the 2050 goal, cumulative investments need to reach USD 5.9 trillion by 2030, that is an increase of USD 3.6 trillion compared to 2024 levels.
Carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement offer a critical mechanism to close this finance gap. Nevertheless, applying Article 6 to buildings requires solving the fundamental problem of the absence of robust, standardised GHG emission baselines. Without credible baselines, emission reductions cannot be accurately quantified, verified, or monetised.
To tackle this challenge, the Partnership for Energy Efficiency in Buildings is co-organising a side event on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (14:00-16:00 CEST) in the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference (SB64) in Bonn, Germany. The event, titled “Decarbonising the Buildings Sector with Carbon Markets: A Policymaker Exchange on Setting Up Enabling Environments from Fundamentals to Baseline Data” will bring together governments with hands-on setting up Article 6 for buildings and developing Article 6 projects, baseline development experience, including Morocco and Tunisia, alongside carbon finance specialists and multilateral institutions.
During the event, PEEB will also launch a new working paper on building GHG emissions baselines, consolidating emerging methodological guidance and country experiences.
Policymaker Exchange Agenda
With the evidence on the table of the potential to mobilise Article 6 finance for buildings, what is most needed now is setting up the enabling policy and institutional environments to realise that potential. At the event, policymakers, international organisations and experts will discuss the structures, data systems, and methodological tools in place to unlock Article 6 for buildings, including the GHG emissions baselines as a critical foundation to start building bankable buildings’ carbon reduction projects.
| Opening | Frank Wolke Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature, Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) |
| Buildings sector under the Paris process | Kishor Rajhansa Global Carbon Council (GCC) |
| The importance of data for integrity in the buildings sector | Daniel Perczyck Institute Torcuato di Tella |
| Presentation of country experiences | Smahan Khouribache Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development of Morocco |
| Roundtable Discussion: How to accelerate the building sector’s access to carbon markets? With inputs from: International Finance Corporation, Ministry of Environment of Tunisia What is needed to improve data generation, processing and reporting at building sector level? With inputs from: Green Digital Finance Alliance, Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD) Questions and comments from the audience will be part of the discussion. | |
| Closing remarks | Joscha Rosenbuch, PEEB/GIZ Hanane Hafraoui, GlobalABC, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
Join the Discussion
We encouraged everyone working on buildings decarbonisation and carbon markets to join on-line the event.
Please contact the PEEB team, indicating your interest in participating, as well as the mode of participation (in-person or online). Our team will send a confirmation as well as participation information.
E-mails for registration and further questions: mariana.limamaia[at]giz.de; michael.mfum[at]giz.de
Our Work Supporting Article 6 Implementation
PEEB’s Climate Finance programme is working to support countries and the wider buildings community to implement Article 6 for buildings and therefore, enable carbon markets to work for decarbonising the built environment in developing countries.
To learn more about the potential of Article 6 for buildings, read our short explainer: Article 6 Carbon Markets: What’s in there for Buildings?
In the last months, we have intensified the capacity building and knowledge production around Article 6, with the publication at COP30 of our Handbook for the Development of Article 6 Projects in the Building Sector.
We are also working with our partner countries in building knowledge and capacity. In Indonesia, PEEB is working with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to build the governance and institutional readiness needed for the buildings sector to participate in Article 6 mechanisms. In Nigeria, two recent workshops transformed foundational learning into high-level strategy, identifying critical action points, including institutional strengthening and connecting project opportunities to finance.
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