taylor wessing - hitting the green wall and beyond
Legislative update
There is a raft of existing and prospective legislation that is likely to impact on the UK development industry as the sustainability agenda gathers momentum. This is a topic that has already generated a great deal of public debate amongst developers, contractors, architects and planners, funders and advisers.
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Dates - Actions
June 1992 - Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit
April 1996 - Creation of The Environment Agency
December 1997 - COP in Kyoto
1998 - Sir John Egan's paper entitled 'Rethinking Construction'
April 1999 - European Landfill Directive 99/31/EC
2002 - Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002
December 2002 - Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2002/91/EC
October 2003 - Sustainable Energy Act 2003
October 2003 - Emissions Trading Scheme Directive 2003/87/EC
April 2004 - Environmental Liability Directive 2004/35/EC
September 2004 - Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004
February 2005 - Kyoto Protocol in force
April 2005 - Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive 2006/32/EC
June 2006 - Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006
October 2006 - The Stern Review - Report on the Economics of Climate Change
2006 - Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2006
April 2007 - EPC (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007
June 2007 - Home Information Pack Regulations 2007
July 2007 - Housing Green Paper – Homes for the future (Ecotowns)
November 2007 - Calcutt Review of House Building Delivery
December 2007 - Planning Policy Statement - Planning and Climate Change
December 2007 - COP in Bali
December 2007 - SDLT (Zero-Carbon Homes Relief) Regulations 2007
February 2008 - JCT consultation paper on sustainability
April 2008 - Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008
May 2008 - Code for Sustainable Homes
October 2008 - EPCs required whenever a building is built, sold or rented out
October 2008 - DECs required in public buildings
November 2008 - Climate Change Act 2008
January 2009 - Taylor Wessing Sustainability Report - Behind the Green Façade
March 2009 - Final Public Consultation on the Draft Order to implement the CRC
March 2009 - JCT Guidance Note – Building a Sustainable Future Together
April 2009 - Better Buildings Partnership Green Lease Toolkit
May 2009 - JCT 2005 Revision 2 suite of contracts published
June 2009 - BPF CRC Guide for Landlords and Tenants
September 2009 - DEFRA and DECC Guidance on measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions
September 2009 - RICS Valuation Information Paper 13
December 2009 - BPF CRC Industry Consultation
December 2009 - COP in Copenhagen
January 2010 - Better Buildings Partnership Benchmarking Tool Kit
January 2010 - DEFRA Consultation on the Definition of Waste
March 2010 - Household Energy Management Strategy
March 2010 - DECC Consultation on Climate Change Agreements
March 2010 - Low Carbon Construction – Emerging Findings
April 2010 - CRC - Start of the first year of compliance
April 2010 - Flood and Water Management Act 2010
April 2010 - Energy Act 2010
April 2010 - Implementation of Feed-in Tariffs
June 1010 - Sustainability Report - Hitting the Green Wall and Beyond
July 2010 - Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU
9 August 2010 - High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
November/December 2010 - COP in Mexico
April 2011 - CRC - First sale of emissions allowances
April 2011 - Proposed implementation of the Renewable Heat Incentive
July 2011 - CRC - First submission of footprint and annual reports
October 2011 - CRC - First performance league table
November/December 2011 - COP in South Africa
April 2012 - CRC - Second sale of emissions allowances
14-16 May 2012 - UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) (also known as '"Rio+20" or "Rio+20 Earth Summit")
July 2012 - CRC - Submission of annual report and surrender of allowances
2012 - UK to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5%
2016 - Government Target for all new homes being zero carbon
December 2018 - New public sector buildings to be 'nearly zero-energy' by 31 December 2018
2019 - Government Target for all new non-domestic buildings being zero carbon
December 2020 - New private sector buildings to be nearly zero-energy by 31 December 2020
2020 - Legislative Target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 34%
2050 - Legislative Target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80%
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