Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 (UTC+4, Baku time)
Location: Business & Innovation Hub - Baku, Azerbaijan
Virtual/livestream link: TBC
WUF13 Business & Innovation Hub Event | Session offered by UN-Habitat | UNEP co-organiser
About the Event
Reliable building data is essential for efficient and effective decarbonisation strategies for housing, for unambiguous insight into building quality, and for unlocking green finance. New technologies facilitate the efficient capturing of essential data points and their management in digital repositories. Digital Building Logbooks (DBLs) are increasingly recognised as key tools for the energy transition and circular material use. The EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD IV) now requires member states to facilitate Renovation Passports, building-level decarbonisation roadmaps towards climate neutrality by 2050.
This network event, supported by the UNEP GlobalABC Data Hub, will present insights from international and national projects on how to boost building data and digitalisation for policymakers and companies. Key initiatives include the Horizon Europe project DemoBLog, demonstrating five DBL examples in Belgium, France, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands covering decarbonisation roadmaps and circularity; and the RenoDat project, exploring the introduction of Renovation Passports for housing in the Netherlands. Building passports have also been developed using the CAPSA tool in cooperation with UNEP and applied in Germany, the UK, Costa Rica, India, Mali, Ghana, and Morocco, with further projects underway in Africa and Latin America.
The event will also explore the critical link between building data and green finance, including the upcoming carbon trading scheme under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, with support from the IFC and the World Bank. Through presentations and a panel discussion, participants will gain a clear picture of how Digital Building Logbooks, Building and Renovation Passports, and green finance instruments are being developed and scaled across multiple continents, with direct relevance for housing quality and urban resilience.
If you have any questions or would like more information about the event, please contact maliya.lazli@un.org.
